Bartiromo to anchor “Wall Street Week” on Fox Business

Maria Bartiromo

Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo has been named the new anchor for “Wall Street Week.”

The program, which launched in 2016 and was originally has been co-hosted by Anthony Scaramucci and Gary Kaminsky, airs every Friday at 8 p.m.

Bartiromo will debut this Friday featuring a special interview with former Microsoft CEO and current Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. Over the past year, Bartiromo has regularly served as a guest host of the show

Bartiromo joined Fox Business in 2014 as global markets editor and anchors “Mornings with Maria” weekdays and also helms “Sunday Morning Futures” on FOX News.

Bartiromo has covered business and the economy for more than 25 years and was one of the building blocks of the business cable network CNBC.

During her 20-year tenure as the face of CNBC, she launched the network’s morning program “Squawk Box,” anchored “The Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” and was the anchor and managing editor of the nationally syndicated “On the Money with Maria Bartiromo,” formerly “The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.”

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.