Dow Jones strikes deal with Italian biz news service

Dow Jones Newswires and 24 ORE Group have agreed to a multi-year deal to provide business news and financial information to the Italian and international markets.

Dow Jones Radiocor Newswire will offer real-time news stories in Italian from Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor and news and analysis from Dow Jones Newswires translated from English to Italian.

The new newswire will be distributed in Italy and internationally. Under the agreement, Radiocor will also distribute the English-language Dow Jones Institutional News, Equity Trader and Multi-Asset Trader services in Italy, and Dow Jones will distribute the Dow Jones Radiocor Newswire to its audience.

“We are proud to partner with Il Sole 24 Ore to support financial professionals and retail investors in Italy and beyond,” said Joe Cappitelli, general manager of Dow Jones Newswires, in a statement. “Together, we will provide a formidable offering of news, data and analysis to help our customers navigate the rapidly changing economic landscape.”

Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor has offices in Rome, Milan, Turin, New York City and Brussels.

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.