Reuters Breakingviews content to appear in Toronto paper

Reuters Breakingviews has launched a daily column in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

The column will feature up to two views from the Reuters Breakingviews team on the Globe Investor page of The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section and will also be available on the paper’s website. The Globe and Mail secured exclusive rights to English content from Reuters Breakingviews in Canada.

The agreement means that The Globe and Mail join the ranks of The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Monde in syndicating content from Reuters Breakingviews.

“We are thrilled to be bringing the distinctive voice of Reuters Breakingviews to The Globe and Mail and are confident our agenda setting commentary and opinion will be a welcome addition to the pages of the paper and their online presence,” said Rob Cox, editor, Americas, Reuters Breakingviews, in a statement. “This agreement also expands the global syndication and reach of our influential commentary, which now appears in 12 of the world’s most respected newspapers.”

Reuters Breakingviews, founded in 1999 by editor Hugo Dixon, was acquired by Thomson Reuters in December 2009 and is now Reuters’ brand for financial commentary.

Reuters Breakingviews has 31 columnists and editors based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Washington, Moscow, Dubai and Madrid. The columns appear both on Thomson Reuters’ 500,000 desktops around the world and on www.breakingviews.com, a subscription website.

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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.