Categories: OLD Media Moves

No official job, but Bartiromo will still work Davos

Claire Atkinson of the New York Post reports that business news anchor Maria Bartiromo still plans to attend the World Economic Forum later this month despite not having a full-time job.

Atkinson writes, “Bartiromo quit CNBC — after 20 years — in November, reportedly for a new deal with Fox Business Network, leaving news-industry tattlers wondering whether CNBC would prevent her from appearing on air from the Swiss Alps event.

“FBN has yet to confirm her hiring, and Bartiromo can’t technically do any on-air reporting until after Jan. 31 — when her non-compete ends.

“Bartiromo has been attending the Davos Forum for years, and her spokesman, Ken Sunshine, tells us she’ll attend the event, same as always, the only difference being she’ll be there as a private citizen and as a host of a few seminars.

“We doubt Bartiromo will be sitting in her hotel room when there’s some high profile schmoozing to be done, with presidents and bank chiefs all around.”

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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.