Founded on January 12, 2009 by Philip S. Balboni and Charles M. Sennott, its stated mission is "to redefine international news for the digital age."

[4] The company was reacquired by Balboni in the fall of 2022 and reorganized into GlobalPost Media Corporation.

[6] Additional arrangements with media outlets including the New York Daily News, The World Weekly, Times of India, and Newark Star-Ledger offered news organizations unlimited rights to republish GlobalPost content in exchange for a flat service fee.

According to GlobalPost ownership, income from their syndication agreements accounted for more than 12-percent of the site's revenue.

[10] In 2014, the site was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for its multimedia series "Myanmar Emerges"