The Conversation launches in the US with 10-strong team

Academia-meets-journalism website The Conversation has expanded into the US with a 10-strong team working out of Boston University.

They will work with academics across the US to produce content, starting with 62 members of the American Association of Universities and the US Science Coalition universities.

The US launch, described by The Conversation as a pilot, is the third market for the not-for-profit publisher which launched in Australia in 2011 and expanded to the UK last year. Around 20 per cent of traffic to The Conversation, which claims a monthly audience of two million, already comes from the US.