Bartiromo named Giant of Broadcasting

Maria Bartiromo

Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo was named a Giant of Broadcasting by the Library of American Broadcasting on Thursday.

The celebration, which was presented by the International Radio and Television Society Foundation, benefits the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation.

The Library created the Giants to honor the remarkable creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, performers and journalists who have brought the electronic arts to the prominence they occupy in the United States and the world today, and who have set the stage for the future.

Other honorees this year include Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes.”

Bartiromo joined Fox Business Network in January 2014 as global markets editor after a 20-year career at CNBC. In 1995, she became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis.

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.