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Text size [+][-]  Monday September 8 2008GLOBAL EDITION

Milestones

Breakingviews launched in 2000. Since then our distinctive brand of views-based journalism has seen us grow into a leader in online financial opinion, now available in dedicated US and European editions.

Breakingviews so far...

2007

Breakingviews launches new daily columns in Handelsblatt and Le Monde. Claudio Costamagna and Mervyn Davies join the BV board. A new column in the Indian financial paper, Mint

2005

Breakingviews US goes live and launches a column in the Wall Street Journal 's weekend edition.

2003

A new daily column in Tijd, Belgium’s leading financial newspaper.

2001

Daily columns in Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad and Switzerland’s L’Agefi.
Breakingviews is the first online business journal to win a Harold Wincott award.
Breakingviews awarded a European Online Journalism award for its coverage of conflicts in investment banking and securities research.

1999

Hugo Dixon, former editor of the Financial Times’ Lex column, sets up Europe’s first online commentary service with FT colleague Jonathan Ford.

2006

A daily column launches in the Wall Street Journal.

2004

The US bureau opens in New York, led by Rob Cox.

2002

Breakingviews introduces interactive online calculators. A column begins in Spain’s Gaceta de los Negocios.

2000

Breakingviews goes live online.
Daily columns launched in the Wall Street Journal Europe and Italy’s La Repubblica.
Hugo Dixon is Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.