CBS News partners with foreign news startup

CBS News plans to supplement its international coverage with reports from a Boston-based startup that specializes in foreign news.

The deal with GlobalPost gives CBS access to the work of 70 correspondents in more than 50 countries.

It comes as news organizations cut back on international staff to cut costs.

GlobalPost, which launched in January to fill some of that void, is giving CBS exclusive access among commercial broadcast networks to material gathered by its correspondents. Those writers might provide video, but won't deliver full, broadcast-ready packages to CBS.

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