CBS News has announced a partnership with GlobalPost, a news website that utilizes 70 foreign correspondents to gather news in 50 countries, to provide its viewers with international news. The site’s reporters would serve as behind-the-scenes foreign correspondents, feeding the network’s anchors and reporters information to broadcast.

The New York Times reports:

“Having a broadcast network partner was a high priority for us, and to be associated with CBS News is a great validation of what we are trying to build,” Mr. Balboni said in a phone call. “We hope to become an important source of international news for Americans, and this partnership is a big step in that direction.”

In the early going, at least, GlobalPost reporters will provide information, not work on the air, with CBS using its reporters and anchors to flesh out coverage for broadcast.

CBS News suggested that the alliance with GlobalPost, in which the network will pay a monthly undisclosed fee to the site, represents an expansion of the news divisions’ efforts to cover the rest of the world.

Paul Friedman, the executive vice president of CBS News who helped negotiate the arrangement, was traveling, but said in a statement that the collaboration would increase the footprint of the network’s journalism.

“We are excited about increasing CBS News’s resources, and very pleased to work with GlobalPost’s impressive global network of talented and experienced freelance journalists,” the statement read. “With this exclusive arrangement in place, CBS News will have unmatched access to first-rate journalists with expert knowledge of the countries they live in and cover.”