MT Newswires strikes distribtion deal with FactSET

MT Newswires announced Wednesday an agreement with FactSet to make its global market and economic news available to FactSet clients.

The MT Newswires newsfeed delivers coverage of leading capital markets in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company’s global network of financial journalists and economists produces over 130 categories of original content around the clock.

FactSet’s workstation is used by over 128,000 investment professionals around the world.

“This agreement will significantly extend the reach and impact of MT Newswires’ trusted, high-quality journalism, enabling us to serve a rapidly growing number of investment professionals around the world,” said Brooks McFeely, the MT Newswires founder and CEO, in a statement. “We’re pleased to be working with one of the most well-known and respected financial research and market data solution providers.”

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.