GlobalPost Co-Founders
Philip S. Balboni
Mr. Balboni is the President and Chief Executive Officer of GlobalPost. He is the Founder and for the past 16 years was the President of New England Cable News (NECN), the nation's largest and most honored regional news network, reaching more than 3.6 million homes in the six-state region.
Mr. Balboni has long been an innovator in quality television programming. He is a pioneer in the development of 24-hour local cable news, and has built one of the most distinguished and successful records in journalism in the United States, serving as chairman, president or board member of numerous national organizations.
As NECN's Founder, Mr. Balboni conceptualized the network, developed its business plan, and negotiated the joint venture between owners The Hearst Corporation and Continental Cablevision, now Comcast. After initially serving as a Director and as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Balboni became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1994.
He led NECN's financial turnaround, allowing the network to move into the black in 1998 and achieve strong growth in profitability each year since. From 2002 to 2006, the network's average annual growth in operating profit has exceeded 40%. NECN has earned a national reputation for excellence, winning all of the country's major journalism awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, generally regarded as television's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, three national Gabriel Awards as Television Station of the Year, and a Walter Cronkite Award from the Annenberg School of the University of Southern California for NECN's political coverage of the 2006 elections.
Charles M. Sennott
Charles M. Sennott, the Executive Editor and Vice President of GlobalPost, is an award-winning journalist and author with a distinguished career in international reporting for both print and broadcast news organizations.
An experienced bureau chief, a hard hitting foreign correspondent and an energetic innovator in multimedia, Mr. Sennott is uniquely equipped to be a leader in the digital age of international journalism.
Through nearly 25 years as a reporter and on-air analyst, Mr. Sennott has been on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in 15 countries from the jungles of Colombia to the deserts of Iraq. He has covered a wide range of stories from the papal transition in Rome to the oil industry in Saudi Arabia.
A long-time foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, Mr. Sennott served as the Globe's Middle East Bureau Chief based in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and as Europe Bureau Chief based in London from 2001 to 2005.
In 2005, Mr. Sennott returned to his native New England when he was awarded a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard University. In the fall of 2006, he returned to the Globe newsroom as a Staff Writer for Special Projects.
Since then, Mr. Sennott has been a leader on a multimedia team that combines writing with still photography as well as audio and video in an effort to produce groundbreaking coverage both online and in the newspaper.