Dow Jones Newswires to provide content on IG Invest

Dow Jones Newswires said Wednesday that it has struck a deal to provide content on IG Invest, an online trading services platform from global retail broker IG.

Terms were not disclosed.

The content will comprise of collections of top stories from Dow Jones’s newsrooms, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily.

“Trusted, reliable and real-time news is paramount for investors, no matter your strategy,” said Joe Cappitelli, general manager of Dow Jones Newswires, in a statement. “By providing customers access to Dow Jones Newswires through a customizable platform complete with our editors’ curation, IG is empowering them to capitalize on market opportunities based on best-in-class analysis and journalism that impact their specific needs.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.