Eisen to anchor “Closing Bell;” Brennan moves to 10 a.m. slot for “Squawk on the Street”
Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of business news at CNBC, sent out the following announcement on Friday: The past few months have forced many changes upon us at CNBC. We’ve shifted locations, learned to do our own makeup and found joy in Microsoft Teams. I want to announce a few other changes – the positive […]
How CNBC is building its membership programs
Grace Wu of Penn Innovators in Business interviewed Sonie Osagie, CNBC director of strategic content & news partnerships, about her job. Here is an excerpt: Tell us about your current career. “I am currently at CNBC in a strategy and operations role that is focused on emerging businesses and platforms. My portfolio consists of two main […]
NY Times: CNBC is considering right-wing shows
Business news channel CNBC is considering adding some right-wing talk shows, reports Ben Smith of the New York Times. Smith writes, “Mr. Conde’s boss, the new NBCUniversal chief executive, Jeff Shell, has suggested in private conversation that he wants to make a more dramatic change at the company’s other cable news network, CNBC, two NBCUniversal executives said. […]
Sorkin, Kernen of CNBC spar online about pandemic
Two anchors of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” had a fiery exchange on Wednesday morning sparked in part by the grim milestone that the nation has surpassed 100,000 deaths due to the coronavirus outbreak, reports Cynthia Littleton of Variety. Littleton writes, “Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen shouted at each other for about a minute in the first hour of the 7-9 […]
How a CNBC reporter created a website to steal her stories
Meg Graham of CNBC.com writes about how she created a fake news website to steal her stories and place them around ads. Graham writes, “I bought a domain through GoDaddy and set up a managed WordPress site, then set up an SSL certificate so I would have a secure website, which would prevent the site from triggering […]
Harding joins LinkedIn as producer of “Business Unusual” show
LinkedIn has appointed Jillian Harding as the new producer of the “Business Unusual” show hosted by Caroline Fairchild. Previously, Harding was working as a producer at Yahoo Finance developing new processes to coordinate logistics and execution of major events. She has also served as digital video producer/writer at CBS Money Watch. She has also worked […]
Biz news sites reported big gains in March
The top business news sites saw dramatic increases in unique visitors in March as the markets and the economy began to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to comScore data obtained by Talking Biz News. CNBC.com claimed the top spot with 114.7 million users, nearly double the 60 million users it had in […]
CNBC’s Chu on cleaning up his home office
Dominic Chu, the senior markets reporter at CNBC, talked about having to dress up his home office while reporting from home during a time his was quarantined. “Everybody got to see my home office,” said Chu. “I got a lot of feedback from social media and my managers about how I could clean things up.” […]
CNBC hires Shead as a tech correspondent in London
CNBC has hired tech correspondent Sam Shead in London. He starts on Monday and will be focused on European technology news. Shead has been writing for the BBC News technology desk and Sifted, which is a new startup publication backed by The Financial Times. He previously worked for Business Insider as a Berlin correspondent and […]
CNBC claims No. 1 spot among biz news sites
CNBC claimed the top spot in the business news category with a record 115 million unique visitors in March, an increase of 98 percent year-over-year, according to comScore. This marks the first time CNBC has ever ranked No. 1 in the category. Yahoo Finance has been the No. 1 business news website. According to the […]
