“Squawk on the Street” gets new co-anchor

Nik Deogun, editor in chief and senior vice president at CNBC, sent out the following staff announcement on Friday morning:   I’m pleased to announce that after a successful stint as co-host of “Worldwide Exchange” in London, Kelly Evans has returned to the U.S. Starting Monday, Kelly will join the “Squawk on the Street” team […]

CNBC.com adds to its staff

Xana Antunes, the executive editor and vice president of CNBC.com, sent out the following staff hires out on Tuesday afternoon: We have two more people coming aboard, coincidentally both celebrated micro-bloggers (among their many other talents.) Amy Langfield is joining our Enterprise team as a content editor. She comes to us from NBCNews.com, where she […]

CNBC and Yahoo Finance start third online show

Yahoo Finance and CNBC have launched their third online show, which is called “Talking Numbers.” Hosted by CNBC’s Brian Sullivan, “Talking Numbers” discusses investment opportunities by analyzing stocks from both a technical and fundamental point of view. “Talking Numbers” aims to teach viewers how to harness both the technical and fundamental data points to become […]

The Onion mocks CNBC

Linette Lopez of Business Insider writes about how the satirical news site The Onion has mocked business news network CNBC with a story. Lopez writes, “In terms of business news, though, no network has been more criticized than CNBC. The channel was  mentioned over and over again in Heleine Olen’s recent book “Pound  Foolish: Exposing the […]

CNBC.com viewers up 50 percent in April

CNBC.com was visited by 8.2 million unique users in April, up 50 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to data from comScore Media Metrix. This is the site’s best April and third best month ever in terms of unique visitors since the site was launched. CNBC’s iPhone application posted 589,000 unique […]

Fixing CNBC in seven simple steps

Adam Warner of Schaeffer’s Research has seven steps he believe will fix the problems at CNBC. Here are some of them: So here are a few suggestions, some of which are actually real suggestions. Hyper-focus on what’s moving today: I know this is poor long-term investing advice. It’s best to ignore the short-term noise and […]

SmartMoney consumer reporter headed to CNBC

Kelli B. Grant, the senior consumer reporter at SmartMoney.com, is leaving the online personal finance magazine for a job at CNBC on its website, a CNBC executive confirmed to Talking Biz News. She will be on the enterprise team run by Jeff Nash, who joined CNBC.com last month from SmartMoney as well. Nash had been […]

Shactman leaves CNBC for MSNBC

Brian A. Shactman, who joined CNBC in June 2007 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for business day programming, is leaving the network to host MSNBC’s “Way Too Early.” He’ll begin on Monday, May 13 and will also contribute to “Morning Joe.” He covered a range of stories for the network, including the […]

Buffett is the master media manipulator

Jon Friedman writes on Indiewire.com about how Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is excellent at manipulating the media. Friedman writes, “This can’t be an accident. I suspect that once the word of Buffett’s prowess began to spread, and he was quickly deluged with interview requests again and again, he studied the print and broadcast media […]

CNBC Prime is going after the guys

Armin Vit of Brand New writes about how the branding of the new CNBC Prime documentary and reality original shows to air from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. are targeting guys. Vit writes, “After watching the montage and the live-action library there is no remnant of a doubt who this programming is for: dudes, with […]