Bartiromo is having trouble booking executives

Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business is getting rebuffed by some in corporate America as she prepares for an upcoming stint as a Fox News opinion anchor, according to seven people who work in major financial institutions and financial-communications executives, reports Claire Atkinson and Sean Czarnicki of Business Insider.

Atkinson and Czarnicki report, “Bartiromo, who anchors ‘Mornings with Maria,’ on Fox Business, among other shows, is about to get a tryout on a new opinion hour on Fox News at 7 p.m. The new show is said to focus on economics and policy, according to an insider.

“She and her team have been making calls to sources to help book guests on the show, but several of these business executives say there is too much risk involved in appearing on air with her. Former Wall Street executives who used to be a layup for her have turned her down, they said.

“‘She’s having trouble getting CEOs,’ one person familiar with the situation said.”

Read more here. Fox denied that Bartiromo was having any difficulty in lining up interviews.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.