Zipkin hired by CNBC as editor on Acorns collaboration

Nina Zipkin has been hired by CNBC to be an editor on its Acorns Grow personal finance collaboration. She started on Monday. Zipkin previously spent more than five years at Entrepreneur magazine, where she worked as a staff writer. She wrote news and features covering leadership, business and tech, with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs, […]

Business Insider hires Zaveri as senior tech reporter

Business Insider has hired Paayal Zaveri as a senior tech reporter in San Francisco. Zaveri will cover enterprise technology with a focus on the cloud. She has been a field producer at CNBC’s San Francisco bureau covering tech, tech policy and California economy for the network’s broadcast, website and digital platforms. Zaveri graduated from the […]

CNBC hiring multimedia reporter

CNBC is seeking a business news-oriented multimedia reporter to join their growing digital video network. The position is an ideal opportunity for writers and producers who possess in-depth knowledge or markets and politics and their convergence. The role includes pitching, creating and owning smart original projects, including spearheading episodic series to publish across CNBC’s digital […]

Source who leaked info to CNBC reporter is arrested

A U.S. counterterrorism analyst was arrested Wednesday at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he worked and charged with leaking classified information to two journalists for NBC and CNBC, reports The Wall Street Journal. Aruna Viswanatha, Dustin Volz and Byron Tau of The Journal reported, “Mr. Frese has been charged with two counts of willful transmission of national defense […]

CNBC is adding a podcast around “Squawk Box”

CNBC is creating a new podcast extension of its flagship morning television show “Squawk Box.” A story on Inside Radio states, “The podcast will be known as Squawk Pod and will publish each morning at 10am. The podcast will pull excerpts from the show’s most newsmaker interviews. “‘With the launch of Squawk Pod, we are […]

How the 24-hour news cycle has changed business journalism

Cary Osborne of the California State University-Northridge alumni magazine profiled CNBC’s Sue Herera, Bill Griffeth and Ron Insana about their work on the business news channel. Osborne writes, “Insana compared business journalism in the 1980s to banking, because of the hours. Once the New York Stock Exchange closed at 4 p.m., work was done. “‘There […]

How CNBC’s Farr ferrets out good health tech stories

CNBC health and technology reporter Christina Farr spoke with Dr. Josh Luke on his “Dr. Luke’s Waiting Room” podcast about how she finds stories and determining how to report stories on her beat. Farr said she likes to frame her stories around people. “One of the things that is a guiding principle for me and […]

CNBC’s Make It seeks consumer finance writer

CNBC Digital is hiring for a talented writer-editor to manage their financial coverage for a broad consumer audience under the NYC-based Make It brand. Duties include helping to build new service-oriented coverage area on credit, debit, credit cards, and other financial products; and pitch, write, copy and edit engaging content for consumers. The ideal candidate […]

CNBC hires Young as sports business reporter

CNBC.com managing editor Jeffrey McCracken sent out the following announcement on Thursday to the staff: I am pleased to announce a new hire for the CNBC.com newsroom. Jabari Young joins as a sports business reporter based in Englewood Cliffs. He will cover news ranging from big TV network sports contracts to the influence of agents […]

Rosenfeld leaves CNBC, heads to Oxford University, University of Chicago

Everett Rosenfeld, the Asia-Pacific editor for CNBC, is leaving the station after six years to pursue a degree from Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Rosenfeld spent six years with CNBC. Prior to his role as the Asia-Pacific editor, Rosenfeld was a reporter covering international macroeconomics, […]