Friedman: Time to give Bartiromo her due
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has become the best business journalist on television. Friedman wrote, “Like a lot of people, I watched Bartiromo on TV for years and didn’t bother to look past the sex-kitten references. When viewers look closer, though, they will come to appreciate her straightforward, […]
One of the most amazing performances ever on CNBC
New York Times business reporter David Leonhardt writes in Wednesday’s paper about what he called one of the “more amazing performances in the history of CNBC.” The performance was an interview that Maria Bartiromo did with Applied Micro Circuits leader Dave Rickey. Leonhardt wrote, “Within a few minutes, he was making his pitch. His company’s […]
An interview with Maria Bartiromo
David Teather of the Guardian newspaper in London recently interviewed CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and wrote about the experience in the paper. Teather wrote that Bartiromo has uncommon access as a business journalist and is one of the few with the power to move markets. He wrote, “I meet her after she finishes a stint […]
Post: Bartiromo shoots talk show pilot
The New York Post is reporting that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has shot a pilot for an afternoon talk show that could take her away from business journalism. The story, which did not have a byline, stated, “It is believed that the yet-untitled talk show, produced by NBC, will focus on ‘women’s empowerment,’ according to […]
Bartiromo's business news reading habits
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo says in an interview with England’s The Independent that she reads The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and some of the New York papers. She also reads Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg online, as well as the Drudge Report. Here are some more excepts from the Q&A: What is the […]
Bernanke says comments to Bartiromo were a mistake
Federal Reserve board chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress on Tuesday, and he called his comments to CNBC business journalism Maria Bartrimo at the White House Correspondents Association dinner a mistake. Bartiromo aried a report that noted Bernanke felt that the market and the media had misinterpreted his opinion about the economy, which caused the […]
The BofA story that just won't die
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow notes that a recent BusinessWeek story on how Bank of America wants to build an investment banking business sounds awfully familiar. Last year, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo posed the same question to BofA CEO Ken Lewis. In 2003, both AFX and Reuters wrote the story. In 1999, it was American Banker […]
Bartiromo lunches with the Financial Times
CNBC star Maria Bartiromo recently sat down to have lunch with David Wighton of the Financial Times at a posh New York restaurant where she was greeted by investor Ken Langone — currently being sued by attorney general Eliot Spitzer about former NYSE head Dick Grasso’s compensation — and then escorted to a corner table. […]
Interpreting the new Fed isn't clear yet
With new Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, the investing world has had to learn how to decpiher his public statements and understand what he, and the Federal Open Market Committee, is saying when it announces its rate decisions. Business journalists, after 17 years of interpreting former chairman Alan Greenspan, now have the same task. […]
Kantrow on the Bartiromo Fed scoop
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, like many others, has a few words to say about how CNBC personality Maria Bartiromo “scooped” the rest of the financial press world by talking to Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Benanke at the White House Correspondents’ dinner last Saturday night and getting him to say that the media and […]
