Categories: OLD Media Moves

Cat fight, or corporate battle

TheStreet.com’s Nat Worden wonders if the alleged cat fight between CNBC anchors Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett is real, or the result of the impending battle between the business news cable network and new competitor Fox Business Network.

Worden wrote, “Nevertheless, the ultimate coup for the new Fox channel would be to steal Burnett or Bartiromo, who has a contract with CNBC expiring in 2008.

“‘[The Fox Business Network is] a month away from launching and they don’t have anybody that is really compelling to be the face of the network,’ says Bibb. ‘Maria has her own network of relationships and she can get to people where a lot of other reporters cannot.’

“Most of the Internet buzz over Bartiromo and Burnett links back to pieces that have appeared recently in the gossip pages of the News Corp.-owned tabloid the New York Post.”

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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.