Developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/World is a national public TV series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television.

Each episode of FRONTLINE/World features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists. These first-person stories will take viewers on adventurous journeys to foreign lands from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Taking advantage of easily portable digital cameras, our correspondents roam widely, observe closely, and when necessary, film surreptitiously.

By presenting viewers with compelling stories from around the planet, the series aims to not only help fill the void in current international news coverage but also to engage the American public in global stories that resonate in their own lives.

The television series is complemented by an extensive Web site, which was awarded a 2002 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence by the Online News Association and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. FRONTLINE/World's Web site publishes original reporting, interviews, reporter diaries, and interactive features. Visitors can also watch all our broadcast stories on our Web site.

The Web site will be also publishing Web-exclusive stories reported by emerging journalists currently enrolled in or recently graduated from leading graduate schools of journalism as part of a new FRONTLINE/World Fellows Program.

To increase the impact of the series, FRONTLINE/World has initiated an engagement campaign, designed to raise public awareness of our stories, and spark dialogue in communities and campuses nationwide.

Major funding provided by Shell and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.