Cheddar anchor Ali departs
Nora Ali, an anchor at business news channel Cheddar, is leaving. Ali wrote on Twitter that she is launching a new venture and leaving the news business. Ali was previously a senior product manager for end-to-end customer experience at the e-commerce company Jet.com, which she joined prior to its launch and acquisition by Walmart. She helped […]
Stenovec hired as anchor on Bloomberg QuickTake
Former Cheddar anchor Tim Stenovec has been hired as an anchor for Bloomberg QuickTake, its streaming television channel. He had been at Cheddar since June 2017. Previously, Stenovec was technology editor at Business Insider. He also was a tech reporter at The Huffington Post, covering streaming media such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Spotify and Pandora, mobile devices […]
Former Cheddar EIC Roberts is joining The 74
Former Cheddar editor in chief Jim Roberts has joined The 74, a nonprofit news organization that covers education, as publisher and chief strategy officer. “I’ve also seen the struggle that many publications have faced in the past 20 years as waves of disruption have undermined what were once rock-solid business models. Among the things that attracted me […]
Crescimbeni departs Cheddar for Vox
Antonella Crescimbeni, an associate producer at business news channel Cheddar, is leaving for a job at Vox. Her last day at Cheddar was Friday. Crescimbeni produced short-form videos, as well as long-form explainer videos for Cheddar’s YouTube channel and live platform. At Vox, she will be working in its new video fellowship and helping the […]
Cheddar combines two networks into one focused on “investing”
Jon Steinberg, the president of Altice News and founder of Cheddar, posted on LinkedIn about changes to the network. He wrote: Cheddar began as a business news network in 2016, and we followed two years later with a second headline news network. Today we are unifying these two networks into one Cheddar with a new […]
Cheddar anchor King departing at end of the week
Cheddar anchor Hope King is leaving the business news channel at the end of the week. She joined in October 2016 from CNN, where she was a tech reporter, to help launch its closing bell show. “Thank you to all my friends, mentors, colleagues, and followers for your generosity, time, and positive energy over the years… and […]
Cheddar editor in chief Roberts is departing
Cheddar editor in chief Jim Roberts announced Friday that he is leaving the news organization. “It has been a privilege to lead a newsroom of so many creative and energetic young journalists, as we worked to make a very different kind of television news,” he wrote on Twitter. Roberts had joined Cheddar in December 2017 […]
Cheddar closes LA studio, makes layoffs
Cheddar, the live-streaming business news outlet, has permanently closed its Los Angeles studio amid company-wide layoffs, reports J. Clara Chan of The Wrap. Chan reports, “The layoffs are part of a recent consolidation of Cheddar’s two live-streamed networks — the business-focused Cheddar and the quick-hit, general news-focused Cheddar News — into one, the spokesperson said. […]
Cheddar takes TikTok by storm
Cheddar has used viral catnip to build audiences globally. The business news channel is using TikTok where Cheddar uploads 10- to 15-second videos that focus on the mesmerizing aspects of machinery, like how ham is sliced. Recently, Cheddar’s most popular TikTok with 3.6 million likes, shows people using in-arm wallet implants created by an artist. […]
Barron’s hires Price as a senior producer
Barron’s has hired Brian Price as a senior producer for “MarketBrief,” its new video show done in tandem with MarketWatch.com. Price has most recently been a booking producer for Cheddar. He also spent a year as executive producer at Real Vision. He also worked at CNBC for two years as a booking producer and writer and at […]
