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Al Jazeera to distribute Bloomberg content

Qatar’s Al Jazeera Media Network said on Monday it would partner with Bloomberg as part of a content license agreement to expand its global business news coverage.

A Reuters story states, “Select Bloomberg content like digital video and charts will run on Al Jazeera’s english-language digital properties, the company said. Al Jazeera’s content will also be available to Bloomberg terminal subscribers.

“The Associated Press and Bloomberg LP had in October announced a sales partnership in Europe, Middle East and Africa region and Asia to expand their media client base.

“Bloomberg competes with Reuters, the news division of Thomson Reuters Corp, in supplying news to media outlets.”

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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.