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Financial Post adds business news podcast

Canadian newspaper National Post launched Wednesday a podcast called “Down to Business,” which tackles topics in Canadian business.

The 20-minute podcast will be released once a week on Wednesdays. It features interviews with sources who have the knowledge and insight to take listeners beyond the headlines.

“‘Down to Business ‘engages listeners in a smart, in-depth conversation that answers the critical question ‘Why does this matter?’” said Nicole MacAdam, executive producer of the Financial Post, the National Post’s business site, in a statement

Financial Post reporter Emily Jackson will host the podcast. She covers the telecom industry for the paper. On Fridays, she hosts National Post Radio on Canada Talks.

The first guest is tech entrepreneur Michele Romanow.

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.