Citigroup/CNBC plane ride is now a "scandal"
Fox News Radio host John Gibson has an editorial about the plane ride given to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo on a Citigroup corporate jet that apparently led to an executive at the company losing his job. Gibson makes some excellent points related to business journalism. He wrote, “Now remember: This is a financial journalist taking […]
More on Bartiromo and the banker
More coverage emerged Wednesday over the ouster of Citigroup banker Todd Thomson due to his inability to control costs, including kicking other Citi executives off a flight from China so that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo could use the plane. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Wednesday that some Citi executives advised Thomson that he needed […]
Bartiromo took trip on Citi jet
The New York Post and New York Times are reporting that one of the reasons that Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince ousted the head of its wealth management business was that he didn’t like the fact that Todd Thomson shuttled personal friends, including CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, around on the corporate jet. The Post story stated, […]
Changes for Bartiromo and Cramer in store?
Doug Kass writes about 25 potential surprises in store for the market and business world in 2007. Two of them are related to business journalism. Kass wrote, “24. Maria Bartiromo leaves CNBC to join Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters on ABC’s ‘The View.’ (At the same time, Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets booted off the […]
New CNBC web site is live
As of 10:20 p.m. Sunday, the new CNBC site has gone live. The business news cable network had said that it would officially launch on Dec. 4, splitting itself from MSN Money, where it had posted news and information for the past six months. The network is planning a huge day on Monday to attract […]
CBS and NBC differ on Dow coverage
Business & Media Institute’s Ken Shepherd noted that CBS and NBC took widely divergent reporting tacks when covering the record close of the Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday.Shepherd wrote, “While CBS’s Anthony Mason offered qualified praise for the market’s recent rally, he sowed seeds of doubt about the market’s strength. Mason highlighted a retiree […]
CNBC coverage of Dow record reminiscent of old days
The TV Newser blog writes that business cable network CNBC’s coverage Tuesday of the Dow Jones industrial average closing at a new record reminded some viewers of its coverage before the tech bubble burst. TV Newser wrote, “CNBC is pretty excited about the Dow’s record high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new record […]
A rare time for business magazines
Has there ever been a time where there was more upheaval and change in the business magazine business than what has occurred in the past four to six months? I can think of only one other period — the time between September 1929 and February 1930, when both BusinessWeek and Fortune launched to compete against […]
Bartiromo has a hard time balancing work and life
A brief in the New York Times on Sunday noted that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo still has a hard time balancing her work life and her personal life. Bartiromo is the subject of a cover story in Success magazine on the issue. Reporter Jane Levere wrote, “‘I can’t say I have mastered that work-life balance […]
Bartiromo: Good looks only get you so far
CNB’s Maria Bartiromo was in Pittsburgh earlier this week to speak to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women and she spoke to Post-Gazette reporter Joyce Gannon about her career and about being in New York on Sept. 11. Gannon wrote, “With a growing numbers of viewers and readers worldwide, she doesn’t mind being identified as […]
