Forbes to launch Argentina edition next month

Forbes announced Tuesday its 19th local-language edition, Forbes Argentina, in partnership with DRP, a division of “Grupo 23” (G23).

The new edition is scheduled to launch on Oct. 10, 2011, in the Spanish language and distributed throughout Argentina. The editor is Alex Milberg who previously was the editor of Newsweek Argentina.

Distribution will be 15,000 copies and the cover price is US $5.50. Editorial will consist of local business stories combined with content gleaned from the U.S. edition of Forbes

“Business-people, company executives, opinion leaders and students are all aware of the prestige and value of the information provided by Forbes. Now they will be able to enjoy that product in Spanish, with the addition of content generated by our local staff,” say Sergio Szpolski and Matias Garfunkel, majority shareholders of Grupo 23, in a statement. “We believe Forbes will become the number one business magazine in Argentina.”

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

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.