Bloomberg TV markets reporter leaves to freelance at CNBC
Sheila Dharmarajan, a markets reporter for Bloomberg Television, has left to take a freelancing position with CNBC, a spokeswoman for the network confirmed to Talking Biz News on Friday. At Bloomberg, Dharmarajan was also regular host of “Bloomberg Enterprise,” a series focused on fast-growing mid-cap companies, and” Bloomberg Innovators,” a series focused on the latest […]
Business TV losing viewers because it fails to address their issues
Chuck Epstein of MutualFundReform.com has a theory about why business news networks are seeing a decline in viewership. Epstein writes, “While there are many possible explanations for these declines, three of the better ones address critical issues many of these major on-air programs have conspicuously failed to address: “–The failure to discuss why trillions in […]
Why no one watches business TV anymore
Kevin Roose of New York Magazine writes Thursday about why viewership for business television networks is way down. Roose writes, “Now Wall Street is boring. Sure, there is the occasional outrage, but most of the financial sector’s sharp edges have been sanded down, its eccentricities and peccadilloes ironed out by five years of regulation and magnifying-glass […]
CNBC core viewership drops to 20-year low
CNBC‘s 25-54 demographic viewership tumbled in July to a fresh 20 year low of just 37,000, the lowest since March 1993, reports Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge.com. Durden writes, “Considering CNBC came on air in its current post-FNN incarnation in 1991, the core viewership is now about as low as it has ever been for the […]
CNBC.com hires new staff writer
Lawrence Delevingne, whose last day at work at Absolute Return was Tuesday, has been hired by CNBC.com as a staff writer. Delevingne, who had been covering hedge funds for Absolute Return, will cover a broader “big money” beat at CNBC, he posted on Twitter. He starts at CNBC.com next week. Before joining Absolute Return in […]
The CNBC decabox wasn’t enough
CNBC reporter Jane Wells decided that it wasn’t enough for the business news network to have 10 people on the screen at one time on Thursday to discuss the problem with NASDAQ trading. So she took a picture of herself in front of the decabox and tweeted it to make it 11. The decabox was […]
CNBC names Silicon Valley bureau chief, new tech correspondent
CNBC senior vice president and editor of business news Nik Deogun sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday: As part of CNBC’s continued commitment to covering the technology sector, I’m pleased to announce a series of moves to bolster our efforts on both coasts. Mark Berniker is joining CNBC as Silicon Valley/San Francisco […]
Biz media is misleading investors, says critic
Investor Doug Kass, who is a contributor to CNBC, tells the New York Post that the business media is in danger of misleading many investors. Claire Atkinson of The Post writes, “He was particularly irked about the reporting surrounding Icahn’s Apple position, which helped push up the stock, and he was disappointed by outsize coverage […]
Why leave CNBC for TheStreet.com?
Herb Greenberg writes about his decision to leave business news network CNBC and return to financial news site TheStreet.com. Greenberg writes, “The decision to leave CNBC was a tough one — as emotionally difficult as when I decided to leave the my 10-year gig as a daily business columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle for […]
Greenberg rejoining TheStreet.com
TheStreet.com announced Thursday that business journalist Herb Greenberg has rejoined the company. Greenberg, a senior stocks commentator on CNBC, will serve as editor of Herb Greenberg’s Reality Check, a subscription newsletter designed to help investors better manage risk; write a daily blog for TheStreet’s main free site and contribute to Real Money’s “Columnist Conversation.” He also will remain […]
