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Cramer renews contract with CNBC

Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable writes that “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer has renewed his contract with business news cable network CNBC. Terms were undisclosed.

Guthrie wrote, “Jim Cramer will stay put at CNBC for the foreseeable future. Cramer, the excitable host of Mad Money, signed a multiyear deal with the network.

“‘Jim has played an integral part in CNBCâ€™s rebirth,’ CNBC president Mark Hoffman said. ‘He is not only one of the most respected and successful Wall Street minds, but also happens to be a great entertainer.'”

Read here. Cramer also is a co-founder of TheStreet.com and writes commentary about the stock market on the web site. The official CNBC release can be read here.

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.