Breakingviews
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Breakingviews is Reuters' brand for financial commentary. The company was founded in 1999 as Breakingviews.com and was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2009.{{Cite web|title = Press Release {{!}} Investor Relations {{!}} Thomson Reuters|url = http://ir.thomsonreuters.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=76540&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1341874|website = ir.thomsonreuters.com|accessdate = 17 August 2015}}
History
Breakingviews was founded in 1999 by Hugo Dixon, a former editor of the Financial Times' Lex column, and his colleague Jonathan Ford.{{cite news | last = Ross Sorkin | first = Andrew | title = Cloak, dagger and mouse: a columnist defects to the web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/07/business/cloak-dagger-and-mouse-a-columnist-defects-to-the-web.html | work = The New York Times | date = 7 August 2000 | access-date = 23 August 2018}} It launched its website in July 2000. In 2001, the site became the first online business journal to win a Harold Wincott award,{{Cite web|title = The Wincott Foundation Awards|url = http://www.wincott.co.uk/awards/previous-winners/business-journal.html|website = www.wincott.co.uk|accessdate = 17 August 2015}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and its columnists have won several awards since then.
In 2005, the site launched a United States edition, led by founding editor Rob Cox. On January 1, 2007, the Wall Street Journal syndicated the service for a daily column on the back page of the "Money and Investing" section and WSJ.com. After Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought Dow Jones, the parent of the Journal, the Breakingviews newspaper column moved to the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times), and to the Daily Telegraph in the U.K.
According to news reports at the time, Thomson Reuters bought the company in 2009 for $20 million.{{Cite news|title = Thomson Reuters to buy Breakingviews for £13m|url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/14/thomson-reuters-breakingviews|work = The Guardian|accessdate = 17 August 2015|first = Katie|last = Allen}}{{Cite news|title = Thomson Reuters Agrees to Buy Breakingviews|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703790404574473261638023166|work= Wall Street Journal|access-date = 17 August 2015|first = Russell|last = Adams}}
Reuters announced in October 2012 that Dixon would step down as global editor-in-chief of Breakingviews, to be succeeded by Rob Cox.{{Cite web|title = Press releases | url = http://www.breakingviews.com/about-us/press-releases/|website = www.breakingviews.com|accessdate = 17 August 2015}}{{Cite web|title = Press release: 17 October 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923194339/http://www.breakingviews.com/press-release/21047602.article | archive-date = 23 September 2015 | url =http://www.breakingviews.com/press-release/21047602.article|website = www.breakingviews.com | date = 17 October 2012 |accessdate = 17 August 2015}}
Partnerships
In addition to Breakingviews columns carried in major news publications around the world, they have appeared in Fortune magazine, Slate.com, Económico (Portugal), Le Monde (France), Handelsblatt (Germany), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Caijing (China), The Business Times (Singapore), The National (United Arab Emirates), Kauppalehti (Finland), El Pais and Cinco Dias (Spain), l'Agefi (Switzerland), La Stampa (Italy), Business Standard (India) and other leading print and online outlets.
References
External links
- [http://www.breakingviews.com/ Breakingviews]
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Category:Financial services companies established in 1999
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