Bartiromo interview of prince an SNL skit waiting to happen
Mark Finkelstein of NewsBusters writes Monday that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo‘s interview with Prince Alwaleed, the largest investor in Citigroup, has the makings of a future Saturday Night Live skit. Finkelstein writes, “CNBC’s Bartiromo conducted the interview by remote this afternoon. When the camera went to the prince, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, you might have […]
Business news takes center stage
Greg Morago writes Thursday for the Hartford Courant how business journalism is taken on more credence with the current economic turmoil. Morago writes, “That transitional focus to business and financial news has shone a spotlight on media business reporters in print and broadcast. The financial talking heads, business scribes, Wall Street analysts and market-watch hacks […]
Bartiromo? Winner. Gasparino? Loser.
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker presents Wednesday his winners and losers in the business media during the economic crisis. Nolan ranks them on a 10-point scale and says that his scores are “are based on how much the media person or outlet has benefited from the crisis, how right they’ve been, and how much influence they’ve […]
No cat fight at CNBC
Suzanna Andrews of Vanity Fair interviews CNBC anchors Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett and comes away convinced that the two stars are not feuding, as has been suggested in gossip columns. Andrews writes, “Both of them, though, think the idea of a rivalry between them is particularly absurd, considering the on-air bitchfest among their male […]
Remain steady, don't create fear
Broadcasting & Cable business editor Robert Marich interviewed CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and Fox Business Network anchor Alexis Glick about covering the Wall Street turmoil during the past week. Here are some excerpts, first from the Bartiromo interview: Would you say general TV news has done a good job covering the stock-market turmoil? It’s hard to […]
Happy birthday, Maria
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo‘s birthday is Thursday.
Things we hate about CNBC
Kevin Price is compiling a list on Seeking Alpha of things that occur on CNBC that he doesn’t like. Here’s a sampling: Erin Burnett insisting that her guests say something positive. We like positive stuff ourselves–where it’s justified. But scraping around for a “silver lining” for its own sake strikes us as something other than […]
Invasion of the money honeys
Ben Stein, who writes a weekly economics column in The New York Times, writes in the latest issue of Best Life magazine about how business journalism has suddenly become the domain of good-looking women, at least on TV. He has five theories as to why that’s happened. Stein wrote, “Think of clerks in Dickensian counting […]
Bartiromo sells book for $500,000 advance
Louis Neyfakh of The New York Observer is reporting that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has sold a book to a publisher for a $500,000 advance. Neyfakh wrote, “Ms. Bartiromo’s literary agent, Wayne Kabak of the William Morris Agency, declined to comment but an assistant at his office referred questions to Crown Business executive editor John […]
How Maria Bartiromo changed analyst reports
Jeff Miller writes on Seeking Alpha about analyst reports and how CNBC reporter Maria Bartiromo changed their relevance to investors. Miller wrote, “In the old days — that would be ten years ago, or so — people would jump on information from a sell-side analyst. The rating change would (somehow) get to the clients paying […]
