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Forbes to launch in Hungary in November

Forbes announced Monday the launch of its latest local-language edition, Forbes Hungary, in partnership with Business Consulting & Media and its Hungarian branch Mediarey Kft.

The first issue will be published in the beginning of November 2013.

The content of Forbes Hungary will consist of 60 percent Hungarian business news, commentary and features, and 40 percent editorial content from Forbes U.S. The Hungary edition will be published monthly.

Business Consulting & Media, the owner of Mediarey in Hungary, also publishes Forbes Slovakia and Forbes Czech Republic monthly, which launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Forbes President of Worldwide Development Miguel Forbes stated, “We are very excited about launching Forbes in Hungary. This continues our rapid expansion into Eastern Europe, which has become a very important strategic footprint for Forbes.”

Márton Galambos, an experienced business journalist who previously worked as business editor and managing editor at Origo, the biggest news portal in Hungary, has been appointed Editor in Chief of Forbes Hungary.

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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