IPS North America contributes in-depth coverage from the region to IPS's global news service. IPS North America reporters cover the critical trends from the region that affect the developing world, from U.S. environmental policy to the work of the World Bank and the IMF, and the United Nations system. IPS North America is dedicated to filling gaps in mainstream and international news coverage in the interest of communication and justice, not for the purposes of commercial gain.

Our news service aims to strengthen global flows of information by making news about other regions of the world available in North America. The primary user groups of IPS are media editors, NGOs, policy-makers at the United Nations, specialised UN agencies, development agencies and educational, public and research institutions, all interested in information about developing countries. IPS news is specially edited for North American audiences and distributed by the IPS partner, the Global Information Network (GIN).

As part of what is known as "development journalism", our news service aims to help correct the imbalance of news provided by the mainstream media in North America by providing contextualised stories that focus less on specific news events than on the processes, institutions and trends in order to make those events understandable to readers.

For the United Nations agencies and North American development agencies, we provide a selection of our news through TerraViva, the IPS Daily Journal, which is delivered by overnight fax or e-mail from IPS's UN Bureau in New York.

IPS North America is a tax exempt organization under Internal Revenue Service Code Section 501(c)3.

For all queries concerning IPS in the region, please write to:

Thalif Deen -- UN Bureau Chief & IPS Regional Director, North America
United Nations, Room S-485, New York, NY 10017
Email: ipsun@aol.com
Tel.: (212) 963-6156
Fax: (212) 888-6099

Katherine Stapp, Regional Editor

Katherine Stapp (Regional Editor) has written for IPS since 1999. Based in New York City, her special interests include environment and public health issues.

IPS Caribbean coverage is provided by experienced journalists based in Trinidad and Tobago (Peter Richards), Kingston (Dionne Jackson Miller, Howard Campbell) and Haiti (Jane Regan). They report on the region's events and issues with an eye to their global significance and by identifying links to the matters that form the heart of IPS news coverage worldwide.

For all queries concerning IPS in the region, please write to: ipsnoramcarib@ipsnews.net.