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Forbes edition to launch in Czech Republic

Forbes magazine announced that it has struck a partnership that will produce an edition of the business glossy in the Czech Republic.

The launch is being held in Prague, with the first issue being published at the beginning of November 2011.

The content of Forbes Czech Republic will consist of 60 percent Czech business news, commentary and features and 40 percent editorial from Forbes US. The Czech edition will be published monthly.

Petr Šimůnek, one of the most experienced economic journalists in the Czech Republic, has been appointed editor in chief of Forbes Czech Republic.

Forbes also publishes licensee editions in Africa, China, Croatia, Bulgaria, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Latvia, Middle East, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Read more here.

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.

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