Bne IntelliNews

bne IntelliNews, previously known as Business News Europe, is a news wire agency and media company focusing on global emerging markets. The company's name is stylized in all lower-case letters as "bne" and "IntelliNews" in its publications. The company primarily offers daily news through its flagship website, but also publishes a bne IntelliNews magazine (previously called Business News Europe), a monthly English-language magazine. Bne IntelliNews work is often translated and also syndicated to several other publications and languages across Europe, Asia and the Americas, being a partner news agency to several companies including Bloomberg Terminal, LexisNexis, and Reuters.

Bne IntelliNews

Formerly	Business News Europe, IntelliNews Ltd
Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	Bne IntelliNews
Industry	News agency, publishing, Information and analytics, corporate due diligence, investigations, hydrocarbon and renewable energy.
Founded	2006; 19 years ago (2006)[1]
Founder	Benedict Aris[2]
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
Number of locations	30 bureaus in different locations in Europe, CIS, West and South Asia, Africa, South America.
Area served	Global newswire service
Key people	Ben Aris, Mark Buckton, Clare Nuttall, William Conroy, Bill Perceval-Maxwell
Products	Newswire, articles, media publisher, publications, news, court documents, marketing, media monitoring tools, sales intelligence solutions, and market intelligence tools
Brands	Business News Europe Monthly Magazine, IntelliNews newswire services, NewsBase energy monitor.
Number of employees	100[3] (100)
Parent	Business News Europe Limited
Divisions	Business News Middle East (BNM), Business News Africa (BNA), Business News East Asia (BNO), Business News Latin America (BNL).
Subsidiaries	Newsbase Energy Monitor
Website	www.intellinews.com

Its reporting was classified by Media Bias/Fact Check as "mostly factual", with "high credibility", and its analysis as "center to slightly right-leaning".^[1]

Location

The new agency is headquartered in Berlin, London and Tallinn. The company's staff are based in multiple locations throughout the magazine's geographic area of coverage. The news agency has bureaus in several regions, including the Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Afghanistan.^[4]

History

Its founder, Ben Aris, had been covering Russia as a reporter since 1993.^[2] bne IntelliNews combines bne Media, the publisher of bne magazine founded in 2006, and Emerging Markets Direct, the parent publisher of the IntelliNews news and views founded in 1998. Aris founded bne Media after leaving The Guardian due to boredom.^[2] Both companies were merged in 2014 by Jerome Booth's New Sparta Ltd. In 2016, following the departure of Booth, bne IntelliNews became independently owned and operated, with Ben Aris as the controlling stakeholder.^[4]

Popularity

Articles from bne IntelliNews have been quoted by, among others, Bloomberg Businessweek,^[5] The Economist.^[6] Pravda^[7] Kommersant,^[8] Weekly Blitz,^[9] Donya-e-Eqtesad,^[10] Kayhan London,^[11] OKO.press^[12] Caliber Azerbaijan, Market Screener, The Moscow Times,^[13] Forbes,^[14] RBC-Ukraine, RIA Novosti,^[15] Newsweek^[16] and Al-Monitor.^[17]