Categories: OLD Media Moves

Forbes to launch Georgia edition

Forbes announced Monday the introduction of its 20th local-language edition, Forbes Georgia, in partnership with Media Partners Georgia.

The new edition is scheduled to launch on Dec. 8 in the Georgian language, and will be distributed throughout Georgia. The distribution at launch will be 3,000 copies.

Revaz Sakevarishvili – who previously held senior level editorial positions in various media companies, including a leading popular business TV show in Georgia – will serve as the editor-in-chief. Maia Mirijanashvili of Media Partners Georgia will serve as publisher.

Forbes Television and Licensing President Miguel Forbes stated, “Forbes is delighted to enter Georgia, which marks our 20^th International Edition.”

Both Forbes Georgia magazine and the corresponding website will combine local business and other stories with rich content from its American and other international counterparts.

Forbes also has editions in Africa, Argentina, 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.