How Bartiromo got her start in business journalism

Maria Bartiromo

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo spoke with the Advertising Week podcast “Great Minds” about her career and how she got her start.

“When I went to CNN, it wasn’t union like the networks were, so I was able to do everything,” said Bartiromo.

“The business television industry was truly in its infancy,” she recalled. She worked at CNN for five years before joining CNBC in October 1993, where she worked for 20 years. In 2013, she joined Fox Business and Fox News.

Her last job at CNN was as an assignment editor, shooting interviews and B-rolls, putting packages together for the people on the air.

“I knew exactly who to call whatever the issue was,” said Bartiromo. But when she received a promotion that would have taken her away from interviewing and into the control room, she put a tape together and applied for a job at CNBC.

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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.