CNN is expanding its international business coverage

CNN announced Wednesday that it is expanding its business coverage with new international shows.

Starting this coming weekend, “CNN Marketplace Asia” and “CNN Marketplace Europe” will begin airing on CNN International, with “CNN Marketplace Middle East” to launch later in the year.

The shows will air monthly and have a dedicated section on the CNN Business website. “CNN Marketplace Asia” will be presented by Selina Wang and Kristie Lu Stout. “CNN Marketplace Europe” will be presented by Nina dos Santos and Anna Stewart.

“The pandemic has changed the business world’s long-held rules and accepted norms beyond all recognition,” said Ellana Lee, senior vice president, CNN International, managing editor for Asia Pacific & Global head of features content, in a statement. “By expanding our Marketplace franchise across multiple regions and platforms, we are responding to our audiences’ desire to know more about both the disruptors and the disrupted as the world of global business enters a new era.

CNN already airs the long-running weekly “CNN Marketplace Africa,” flagship daily shows “Quest Means Business” and “First Move with Julia Chatterley.”

Its website has seen its international unique visitors grow by 66% in the last year.

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.