Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo's Official CNBC Biography is Lengthy and Impressive

2008-06-13T23:56:00Z

On Air: The Set and the Monitor Look Different. Pictured
is Maria anchoring live from the 2008 Milken Institute
Global Conference in Beverly Hills.

Maria Bartiromo is celebrating her 15th year at CNBC, amazing as that is. During her time there she has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments. What follows are some excerpts from her official CNBC profile:

Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC’s "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" (M-F, 3-5 p.m. ET), and host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," which was also recently rated the most watched financial news program in America.

Bartiromo writes a weekly column in BusinessWeek magazine entitled “FaceTime with Maria Bartiromo."

In 1995, Bartiromo became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis where she covered breaking news for the network's unscripted and fast-paced business morning program, "Squawk Box." She reported from the NYSE for 10 years.

In 2002, Bartiromo was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her piece on the widows of September 11. In May 2008, Bartiromo received a Gracie Award in the category of Outstanding Documentary for her documentary “Greenspan: Power, Money & the American Dream.”

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Watching Maria Bartiromo Work: Those Who See Only a Pretty Face Don't Get the Picture

2008-04-29T08:30:00Z

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- At this year's Milken Institute Global Conference it is hard to miss the fact that CNBC's Maria Bartiromo is covering the event live. She is frequently on the air, interviewing high-powered speakers and attendees at the influential confab or just presenting and commenting on the day's unfolding events.

Like the vast majority of other prominent journalists covering the conference, Maria is a seasoned and savvy financial journalist who understands the financial markets and corporate America and can go mano-a-mano with the likes of Michael Milken, T. Boone Pickens, Steve Wynn and Eli Broad.

But Maria has talent and a skill-set that really towers over other journalists and she makes what she does look so easy that you really have to study her on the job to see how truly impressive she is.

What CNBC viewers see is Maria seated at an anchor desk in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. More often than not, the camera delivers a tight shot, which fills the screen with her and CNBC's various scrolling graphics and charts. When the camera does periodically pull back, one can see conference attendees walking to and fro, oblivious to her presence.

But the CNBC camera lies.

Maria is impossible to miss. Petite and coiffed, she sits at the center of a canyon of lights, teleprompters, cameras, computer banks and production crew members who make her live shots possible. They in turn are front-and-center in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton, right across from the main hotel registration desk; only feet from its main bank of elevators; and just a few more paces from the grand ballroom where lunch and intellectual protein are served.

People are taking Maria's picture. They are standing on the side and in front of her watching her work. They are also standing to her side and in front of her ignoring her, carrying on loud conversations on their cell phones and amongst themselves. In her ear is the audio link to producers back East, who yack at her constantly. Standing directly off camera is a field producer who is either yapping at her or delivering her cues using hand signals.

And in the midst of all this, Maria has to tune it all out and work as a quality journalist.

I contrast this to Andrew Ross Sorkin, the print and digital journalist who is covering the same conference for The New York Times. Andrew walks through the crowds and navigates his way in and out of sessions unnoticed by all but a few. He has no earphone yapper telling him how many seconds until he must again be smart and peppy. He can go off to a corner, unnoticed, and write and file his stories with virtually no interruptions.

I've always respected both Maria and Andrew as excellent journalists. But after watching them at the Milken conference, I must say that I respect both of them even more.

I respect Maria because I don't think I ever realized just how demanding live financial television journalism remains, despite all the technological advances of the past decade that now permit financial journalists to be on scene. That Maria can seize her focus out of the swirl around her and remain composed and articulate is truly amazing.

As for Andrew, well my respect for him also rose after watching him work. After all, he had the good sense to stay away from a multi-tasking job such as Maria's.

-- Dean Rotbart

Maria Bartiromo One of Only Three Women to Participate in a Panel in Davos

2008-01-30T19:58:00Z

Ms. Bartiromo is one of only three women to be asked to participate in one of the key economic panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The other women were Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and PepsiCo Chief Executive Indra Nooyi.

Female delegates only make up 17 percent of the hundreds of policymakers and business leaders that gathered in the Alpine resort of Davos.

Maria Bartiromo – A NewsBios “Top 100” Journalist

2007-11-05T18:10:00Z

Maria Bartiromo, Business anchor of CNBC, is one of the 100 most influential business journalists in the United States, according to NewsBios.

The NewsBios editorial team ranked Ms. Bartiromo from its database of more than 7,000-plus in-depth journalism profiles available from the NewsBios library. The library is updated weekly and reflects those journalists who are of greatest interest to corporate America, PR agencies and other news organizations and journalists.

In addition to Ms.Bartiromo's dossier, NewsBios has current profiles on many of her colleagues at CNBC, as well as competitors as news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Investors Business Daily.

To order her NewsBio, phone 1-866-NEWS-070 ext. 2. The profile is available for $69.95.

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CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo – Good, Bad & Ugly

2007-11-05T18:07:00Z

What has been your experience in interacting with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo? Do you work with her? Have you been the subject of her reporting?

What would you like to say to others who are thinking about cooperating with Ms. Bartiromo on a story? Do you believe she is fair and professional in her dealings? Does she demonstrate a mastery of her subject matter.

We welcome your comments here.