CNBC gets into the crowd funding business
Philiana Ng of The Hollywood Reporter writes Monday about “Crowd Rules,” a new reality show on CNBC where businesses compete to win $50,000 in funding. Ng writes, “Crowd Rules panelists emphasized the differences of their CNBC offering from that of ABC’s Shark Tank, which focuses on the entrepreneur and whose bickering ‘sharks’ are often the […]
CNBC gets serious about web video
Mike Shields of Adweek writes about how CNBC is paying more attention to web video to drive traffic to its site. Shields writes, “This week marks the debut of the CNBC Digital Workshop, an in-house production studio designed to crank out Web originals for CNBC.com and partners like Yahoo. Among the projects in development are […]
CNBC.com hires Lowry as senior editor
CNBC.com executive editor and vice president Xana Antunes sent out the following staff hire on Wednesday morning: I’m delighted to announce that Tom Lowry is joining us Monday, April 22nd as Senior Editor, overseeing our economics and politics coverage as part of our newly-created Enterprise desk. Reporting to Jeff Nash, Tom will also serve as […]
Why Cramer’s comments about biz journalism hurt
Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis writes about the comments made by CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on Saturday at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ conference about the current state of business journalism. Lewis writes, “If you watch his show and you buy his stock picks, you are not really doing […]
CNBC copies the Fox Business playbook
Brendan Byrne of ValueWalk.com writes about how CNBC has copied Fox Business Network‘s strategy of visiting cities around the country. Byrne writes, “Taking a page from their playbook might be a little generous, to look at the promo for CNBC’s Opportunity USA Tour. It immediately harkens you back to September when Fox Business Network launched […]
CNBC.com hires SmartMoney.com editor
Jeff Nash has been named to the newly-created position of deputy managing editor, enterprise for CNBC Digital. Nash will start on Monday, April 15 and report to managing editor Allen Wastler. He will be responsible for managing and developing the division’s talented editorial team and increasing the amount of original reporting and content produced for […]
CNBC.com users up 35 percent in March
CNBC.com was visited by 7.6 million unique users in March, up 35 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to data from comScore Media Metrix. This is CNBC.com’s second best March ever in terms of unique visitors and its fourth best month ever in terms of uniques. CNBC’s other mobile applications also […]
Lee cutting back anchor duties at CNBC
CNBC anchor Melissa Lee is cutting back on her anchoring duties at the business news network, reports Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com Ariens reports, “Lee is moving off the 9amET show ‘Squawk on the Street’ which he has co-anchored since Erin Burnett‘s departure almost two years ago. “‘Melissa is an integral part of the network and […]
Yahoo Finance and CNBC launch new show
Yahoo Finance and CNBC are premiering the first two episodes of a new show called “Big Data Download” on Wednesday. The show is hosted by CNBC’s Courtney Reagan and will regularly feature Yahoo Finance’s editor-in-chief Aaron Task, senior columnist Michael Santoli and co-host of “The Daily Ticker” Lauren Lyster. “Big Data Download” is a daily […]
Is LinkedIn’s future business television?
Owen Thomas writes for Business Insider about how LinkedIn could be a competitor to CNBC in the future by getting into televised business news and information. Thomas writes, “At the Ignition Mobile conference in San Francisco Thursday, Nishar suggested that in 10 years, when you walk into a room with a television in the morning […]
