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Business Insider launches French edition

Julie Hansen, the chief operating officer and president of Business Insider, writes about the launch of its French-language website.

Hansen writes, “BI France publishes in French and covers business news of interest to residents of France, Europe, and francophone Africa. It is published by leading European publisher Prisma, edited by Marie-Catherine Beuth, and headquartered in Paris.

“Readers in France will be redirected automatically to the new site, as will readers with French chosen as their default browser language in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Senegal, Republic of the Congo, Benin, Djibouti, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

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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.