Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW's Best in Business
Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]
CNBC.com, apps have record February
CNBC.com had its best month ever in terms of uniques and its second best month ever in page views in February. According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 6.8 million unique users last month, a 61 percent increase compared to the same time period last year, and recorded […]
CNBC’s Kudlow criticized for earthquake remark
CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow is being criticized for noting that the human impact of the Japanese earthquake is going to be worse than the economic impact. Kimberly Nordyke of the Hollywood Reporter writes, “Taking a look at the U.S. markets following Friday’s quake, Kudlow said: ‘The human toll here looks to be much worse than […]
CNBC's Kudlow criticized for earthquake remark
CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow is being criticized for noting that the human impact of the Japanese earthquake is going to be worse than the economic impact. Kimberly Nordyke of the Hollywood Reporter writes, “Taking a look at the U.S. markets following Friday’s quake, Kudlow said: ‘The human toll here looks to be much worse than […]
Business journalists working on Sunday
Ryan Ruggiero, an assignment desk manager at CNBC and contributing writer for CNBC.com, posted this photo of the business news network’s control room for its special live show on Sunday about the impact of the Japanese earthquake on world markets.
A CNBC producer with a massive Rolodex
Chris Vaccaro of the Sachem Patch profiles Lori Ann LaRocco, a senior talent producer at CNBC and a recent author of a business book. Vaccaro writes, “Now she books the high level talent for the entire network at CNBC. “‘I never thought in a billion years I’d be in business news,’ she said. ‘The only […]
Synergies between CNBC and other NBC properties coming?
The New York Post has an item on Sunday about how Comcast is trying to create some synergies among the properties at NBC Universal, which is recently acquired. The item states, “But insiders are wondering when their brethren over at CNBC are going to start playing ball. “The business network airs a primetime show called […]
CNBC’s ratings down in February
TheStreetInsider.com reports that CNBC‘s ratings fell by 25 percent during the business day in February. The site reports, “For the CNBC business day, Monday-Friday 5:00AM-7PM, average viewers fell to 221,000 from 294,000 last year, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. In the key 25-54 advertising demo, average viewers are down 37 percent to 53,000. […]
Loomis, Quick and Sorkin invited to interview Buffett at annual meeting
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual shareholders letter, written by CEO Warren Buffett, was released on Saturday and it disclosed his favorite business journalists. Carol Loomis of Fortune, Becky Quick of CNBC and Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times have been invited once again to attend the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting […]
Gasparino likes to compete against CNBC
Richard Huff of the New York Daily News profiled Fox Business Network‘s Charles Gasparino in Thursday’s paper, where the business journalist discusses his fondness for competing against his former employer CNBC. Huff writes, “That’s why he’s at FBN, he says, and this week he marks his first year at the Fox-owned business news cable network. […]
