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BusinessWeek launching new financial site

MediaWeek’s Mike Shields is reporting that BusinessWeek is looking to launch a new financial site later this week that it hopes will triple its number of pages.

Shields wrote, “Starting May 1, the new Company Insight Center (CIC)â€”built in conjunction with BusinessWeek sister company Capital IQ (both owned by McGraw-Hill Cos.)â€”will begin housing a huge amount of free financial information on companies and individuals that is typically restricted to Wall Street types.

“Using the CIC, anyone with Internet access will be able to sift through info on 42,000 public companies, 322,000 private companies and roughly 1 million executives, pulling the latest stock prices and earnings data, as well as listings of companiesâ€™ boards of directors. Thatâ€™s a major point of differentiation versus other such products, according to Roger Neal, Businessweek.comâ€™s general manager.”

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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.