CNBC wins two Gracie Allen awards
Business news cable network CNBC has won two Gracie Allen Awards, one each in the documentary and talk show categories, according to an announcement Wednesday. “The Suze Orman Show” won for outstanding talk show. Executive producers are Suze Orman and Amy Feller. And “Greenspan: Power, Money & The American Dream” won in the mid-length documentary category. […]
Bartiromo: Recession talk can cause more weakness
Jeff Poor of the Business & Media Institute writes Wednesday about CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo‘s appearance on the “Today” show, when she warned about too much coverage of whether we’re already in a recession. Poor wrote, “The media’s constant carping about an economic downturn will have consequences unless the recession rhetoric is toned down, CNBC’s […]
Best times over for CNBC?
The 1440 Wall Street blog has an interesting analysis about the future of business news network CNBC, concluding that its best days may be behind it. The blog stated, “Several excellent journalists are carrying the channel, how long can that last? “The channel is turning into an infomercial for the New York Times; can we […]
Bartiromo doesn't find "Money Honey" demeaning
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, speaking to Steve Freiss of Vegas magazine, said she doesn’t find the “Money Honey” nickname demeaning or sexist. Freiss wrote, “She revels in her unlikely role as an economic analyst with a Manolo fetish, a girl’s girl in what, until she arrived, was largely a man’s world. In fact, she recently […]
Fortune's smart biz journalism move, or No. 101 with a bullet
I’m pleased to see that Fortune magazine has decided to pick up the popular “101 dumbest moments in business” list that was previously collected and written by its now-defunct Time Inc. colleague Business 2.0, which ran the list for seven years but closed shop earlier this fall. Fortune absorbed a number of Business 2.0 staffers, […]
Critiquing BusinessWeek's new Chicago edition
Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Sun-Times critiques the new Chicago-only edition of BusinessWeek and gives the publication a B-. Lazare wrote, “In many ways, BW Chicago seems to aspire to be a somewhat more magazine-y version of what Crain’s Chicago Business pioneered nearly three decades earlier, and subsequently had plenty of time to polish. The […]
What the mistakes in the NYTimes' Bartiromo story mean
Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio wonders how mistakes could have been made in a Monday story in the New York Times business section about CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo that included getting wrong the names of a Citigroup executive and an investment fund. Bercovici wrote, “This is more than a storm in a media teacup: it speaks […]
Bartiromo having a bounce back year
Bill Carter of The New York Times writes Monday how CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has turned her year around after having been accused of ethical transgressions earlier this year when she took a flight on a Citigroup jet. Carter wrote, “But unlike other media figures who have seen their careers derailed by becoming targets of […]
Painting Maria Bartiromo
Callen Bair of Conde Nast Portfolio notes that an artist is now hawking a painting of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo that says, “If I see that bitch Erin Burnett on the Today show one more time, I’m gonna freak out.” The asking price is $4,999. Bair wrote, “‘The original reason why I painted the picture…was […]
CNBC's "Money Honeys"
Columnist David Hinckley of The New York Daily News takes a look at CNBC anchors Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett and calls both of them “Money Honeys,” a nickname typically reserved only for Bartiromo. Hinckley wrote, “Apparently, nothing turns some men on like the sight of an attractive woman talking about the impact of lowered […]
