WRN is a proactive, conflict-prevention oriented world news service that seeks to minimize violence by facilitating peace. WRN provides humanizing, rationalizing media and information that can bring together conflicting parties who do not understand one another. WRN also seeks to inform a massive global and American audience with expert-level information so that interested citizens can seriously p
articipate in international relations debates. WRN was founded by a team of five members who have collective diplomatic and world media experience across 180 countries and almost as many career years. The service relies largely on volunteer content submitted by working field experts in relevant issue areas. We use this volunteer content system because we reject the news-for-profit model and believe that the structural reliance on and pursuit of higher and higher advertising revenues has severely corrupted American mass media coverage of international trends, events, policies and practices. The highest quality of information should be a public service. Advertising should be an afterthought to meet minimum operational requirements, but mass media companies today pursue advertising as a goal more so than public service. WRN was founded to revitalize hard, unbiased international news for the American people and for other English-speakers around the globe. It is our firm belief that doing so will allow for a more informed public discussion of foreign policy practices and objectives, and that this discussion will ultimately lead to greater mutual understanding and lower levels of armed conflict between potential belligerents, defendants, and victims.
