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Breakingviews expands US coverage
19 Sep 2005
—Breakingviews, the leading international financial commentary service, kicked off its US expansion with the publication of its maiden column in the Wall Street Journal’s new Weekend Edition, and the addition of four outstanding journalists to its New York-based editorial team.
Joining US editor Rob Cox in the new breakingviews New York office are Edward Chancellor, assistant editor; Dan Ackman, correspondent; Antony Currie, correspondent; and Alex Fak, news editor.
The team will comment on the most important US financial and business stories of the day, delivering rapid and value-added insight to clients comprising the top echelon of global financial professionals. In tandem with the enhanced coverage, breakingviews plans to launch a new commentary service focused on the US professional market early next year. Customers who would like to receive a trial to this product can sign up now at www.breakingviews.com.
“The addition of Eddy, Dan, Antony and Alex gives us the opportunity to bring our hard-hitting and edgy commentary to bear on Wall Street, where views that cut to the chase are in ever-increasing demand,” said Cox. Hugo Dixon, chairman and editor of breakingviews, adds: “With this expansion, breakingviews can truly claim to be the foremost international commentator in financial markets.”
The expanded editorial operation is located at 183 Madison Ave., Suite 1117, New York, NY 10016 and can be reached by telephone at (212) 213-0265.
Chancellor is a founding editor of the breakingviews team in London and an economic historian of renown, whose "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation" was chosen as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," and ranked as one of six indispensable investment classics by Money magazine. His work has appeared in The Economist, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Ackman, who will cover legal and regulatory matters and media companies at breakingviews, joins after five years as a commentator at Forbes.com. He is a trained lawyer and graduate of Columbia University’s law and journalism schools. His articles have been published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the American Lawyer, The New York Observer and Salon.
Currie, who will write about capital markets, investment banking and basic industries, joins breakingviews after nearly a decade at Euromoney Institutional Investor, where he most recently served as US editor. A British citizen, Currie holds a bachelor’s degree in German language and literature and a masters degree in politics and international relations from the University of Bristol.
Fak, who will cover the hedge funds and technology, comes to breakingviews after two years covering business and finance in Moscow for The Moscow Times. Fak, a graduate of Washington University in St Louis, also worked at the Economist, where he was the Marjorie Dean Fellow, and at the Financial Times, where he received the Sander Thoenes Fellowship in emerging markets journalism.
The editorial expansion coincides with the start of a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal’s new Saturday paper, Weekend Edition. The breakingviews column appears on the back page of the Money & Investing section and carries punchy, financially sophisticated opinions on topical issues.
About breakingviews
Since its founding in 1999, breakingviews has become one of the most influential commentators in international financial markets with a subscriber base of more than 400 clients drawn from the world’s leading investment banks, largest hedge funds and institutional investors as well as many corporations and legal and public relations firms.
Breakingviews has won professional accolades for its journalism. Among these, it became the first electronic publication to win the prestigious Harold Wincott Press and Broadcasting Award for UK Business Journal of the Year.
In addition to its online subscription service, breakingviews supplies its value-added commentary to a handful of prestigious newspapers. The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition builds on breakingviews’ extensive network of newspaper partners, which will now number almost 4m readers in the US and Europe.
Print partners include the Wall Street Journal Europe, the UK’s Sunday Telegraph, Spain's Gaceta de los Negocios, Italy's la Repubblica, Holland's NRC Handelsblad, Switzerland's l'Agefi, Finland's Kauppalehti, and Belgium's Tijd.