Maria Bartiromo, extremely pretty, and enormously charming reporter on the CNBC, Financial Channel, was the first reporter ever permitted to report from the NYSE stock exchange floor, usually at the hyperactive opening bell, back in 1996.
Some brokers felt she was intruding on "solemn ground" and at first, went out of their way to "accidentally" run her down.
She has just signed a 5 year
contract with CNBC, and is leaving her reporter duties.
She was honored on Wednesday,
and asked to "Ring the NYSE Closing Bell".
That
same night she appeared as part of a Celebrity Jeopardy, with Alex Trebeck,
in
which she won $20,000 which she donated to NIAF as her favorite Charity.
While
on air she often referred proudly to her Italian Heritage, as is as fine
a representative as a Community could have.
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BARTIROMO
EXIITS CNBC REPORTER SLOT
Los
Angeles Times
From
Associated Press
May
13 2004
NEW YORK -- CNBC reporter Maria Bartiromo, whose breathless reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was a symbol of the 1990s boom, is leaving her reporting perch.
She said Wednesday she was leaving CNBC's morning show "Squawk Box" to concentrate on other duties at CNBC and NBC.
Bartiromo was the first TV reporter permitted on the exchange's floor, where she would deliver rapid-fire specifics on the market's rise and fall — and she wasn't roundly welcomed when she started in 1996.
"There were people who didn't want me there, and they made it known. They tried to intimidate me," she said.
Bartiromo, who just signed a five-year contract with NBC, has a weekly interview show and wants to do more for "Closing Bell," CNBC's afternoon market program. She's also starting her own production company and is interested in other opportunities at NBC News, she said...
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MARIA BARTIROMO
In her highly anticipated new book, television's ace financial reporter CNBC anchor woman Maria Bartiromo shows you how to use timely news and hot information to make money in today's market. A media luminary with the solid credentials of a seasoned pro, Maria Bartiromo has set the standard for business news programming, delivering indispensable, up-to-the-minute information from the New York Stock Exchange.
With the March 2000 debut of CNBC's Market Week with Maria Bartiromo (7:30-8:00 p.m. ET Fridays), Maria Bartiromo is continuing to set the standard for business news programming around the world. The show, co-produced by Bartiromo, broadcasts live from the floor of The New York Stock Exchange and is seen on CNBC, CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe. Bartiromo also serves as a daily anchor for the first hour of CNBC's Street Signs (2-3p.m.) and second hour of Market Wrap (5-6p.m.).
Bartiromo joined CNBC in 1993 after five years as a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News. She has anchored The Columbus Day Parade for the past five years live on WNBC and WPIX. Additionally, she writes monthly columns for Individual Investor and Ticker magazines. In 1996, Bartiromo was nominated for a Cable ACE Award for her three-part series on the Internet and its implications for investor's. In 1997, she received the Coalition of Italo-American Associations Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award.
In addition, Bartiromo covers breaking news from CNBC's New York Stock Exchange bureau during the network's pre-game financial show, Squawk Box (7-10 a.m.). She was the first journalist to report live from the floor of The New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. Bartiromo contributes to NBC's Today in L.A, Today in Chicago and CNBC Asia's daily broadcasts. Her morning reports are presented live from the NYSE floor, beginning prior to the opening bell on Wall Street. And, when warranted by vigorous stock market activity, Bartiromo provides business news reports to NBC's Today Show, CNBC sister network MSNBC, NBC flagship station WNBC and other NBC affiliates nationwide.
Harper Collins published her first book,"Use the News", which explains how to sift through the information explosion on Wall Street.
Maria graduated from New York University, where she majored in journalism and minored in economics.
Bartiromo.com
http://www.bartiromo.com/