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National Post brings Breakingviews.com commentary to Canadian readers
10 Sep 2009
Toronto, New York and London (Sept. 10) – The National Post and Breakingviews.com, the international online financial commentary publication, announced today that a Breakingviews.com-branded opinion column will appear daily in the Financial Post, the National Post’s financial pages, from today, and online at financialpost.com. The National Post will be the exclusive English-language Canadian newspaper to carry Breakingviews.com.
The column will add to the National Post’s award-winning coverage of Canadian business and finance by offering readers punchy and agenda-setting commentaries on global financial issues, including international markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds and private equity.
“The Breakingviews.com columns are a complement to our leading news coverage of finance and business and our roster of award-winning columnists”, said Douglas Kelly, Editor-in-Chief of the National Post. “The column offers hard-hitting commentary that will give our readers deeper insight on the most important events in the global financial markets at a time when such information has never been more critical to investors.”
Breakingviews.com’s subscription service reaches more than 15,000 professionals at the world’s top investment banks, corporations, hedge funds, governments, law firms and investment institutions. Through newspaper partners like The National Post, Breakingviews.com commentaries reach millions more readers every day.
“We are thrilled to bring our hard-hitting commentary for the first time to Canadian readers every day and the movers and shakers of Bay Street,” said Rob Cox, US editor and a director of Breakingviews.com. “Best of all, we get to work with a partner in the National Post whose high editorial standards and values we share”.
About National Post
National Post is a subsidiary of Canwest Global Communications Corp. An international media company, Canwest is Canada's largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers and owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, web sites and radio stations in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
About breakingviews.com
Breakingviews.com provides sophisticated clients in the global financial industry with valuable insights in real time. It also provides its agenda-setting columns to leading newspapers including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Daily Telegraph (UK), Handelsblatt (Germany), Le Monde (France), Caijing (China), Cinco Dias and El Pais (Spain), La Stampa (Italy), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Business Standard (India), Nikkei Veritas (Japan) and The National (UAE), L’Agefi (Switzerland).
For more information or to arrange an interview please contact:
For Canwest
Phyllise Gelfand
Director of Communications
Canwest Publishing
Office: (416) 442-2936
pgelfand@canwest.com
For breakingviews.com
Rob Cox
US Editor
breakingviews.com
Office: (646) 467-5532
Mobile: (203) 482-1416
rob.cox@breakingviews.com
Trevor Vale
North American Sales
breakingviews.com
Mobile: (917) 428 9292
trevor.vale@breakingviews.com