CNBC Make It hires Vega to cover personal finance
New York Post tech reporter Nick Vega has been hired by CNBC Make It to cover all things money. Vega has been at the Post since September 2017. He previously interned at Business Insider and the “Today” show. Vega has a graduate of SUNY-Binghamton, where he was editor in chief and news editor of the student newspaper. […]
CNBC hires Lucas to cover restaurants, food, consumer products
Amelia Lucas has been hired as a staff reporter at CNBC.com to cover restaurants, food and consumer products. Lucas had been a news associate with CNBC for two years covering everything from Starbucks and McDonald’s to the growth of something that professes to taste like meat. She grew up in northern Virginia and attended the […]
CNBC’s website posted records in 2020
CNBC reached a record 84.9 million average monthly unique visitors in 2020, which was up 56 percent year-over-year, resulting in eleven straight months of double-digit, year-over-year growth, according to comScore. CNBC also had the largest year-over-year audience gains in comScore’s business news category. CNBC claimed the No. 2 spot for three consecutive months for the […]
Mercado becoming markets editor at CNBC
CNBC personal finance writer Darla Mercado is becoming a markets editor for the business news website. She starts her new position next week. As a personal finance writer, she has been writing about taxes, retirement planning, insurance and more. Mercado is also a Certified Financial Planner professional. She has been at CNBC since July 2016. She previously […]
CNBC markets reporter Imbert becoming news editor
Fred Imbert, who covers markets for CNBC.com, is becoming a news editor next week. Yun Li is becoming the main markets reporter. Imbert has been with CNBC since December 2014, first as a news associate, and then for the past four years as a markets reporter. He is a graduate of Syracuse University. Li has been […]
CNBC Digital seeks a tech reporter in San Francisco
CNBC Digital is seeking a technology reporter in its San Francisco bureau. Responsibilities What you’ll do: Improve and expand our coverage of the technology industry in Silicon Valley. Help build and define a new beat encompassing some mixture of enterprise software, cybersecurity, and future innovation. Regularly break news on the people and companies most important […]
CNBC’s on-air arguments may become a thing of the past
Brian Steinberg of Variety writes that on-air arguments between CNBC anchors and reporters may end now that it’s more closely tied to NBC News and MSNBC. Steinberg writes, “CNBC has allowed its anchors and correspondents to speak their minds on issues in the past. But it’s hard to reconcile this sort of anchor-on-anchor skirmish with […]
CNBC’s news show with Shep Smith has low ratings
Paul Farhi of The Washington Post writes about the early ratings of CNBC’s evening news show featuring new hire Shepard Smith. Farhi writes, “Since his debut in late September, ‘The News With Shepard Smith’ has averaged a modest 280,000 viewers each weeknight at 7 p.m. That’s twice as many viewers as the ‘Shark Tank’ reruns it replaced […]
Farr departs CNBC to become a health tech investor
Health technology reporter Christina Farr has left CNBC to join OMERS Ventures, which is the venture investment arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds. She is also starting a newsletter. “Leaving reporting is so bittersweet for me,” she wrote on Twitter. “Over the past decade, I’ve been so fortunate to work on a mix of features, […]
Sorkin recognized as business news visionary
Dean Rotbart of 2020 Business News Visionaries recognized Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and CNBC. Rotbart writes, “Before Andrew even graduated Scarsdale High, he had talked his way into an internship at The New York Times. In 2001, at the ripe old age of 24, he convinced publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. to let […]
