Maria Bartiromo is a business news anchor, reporter, and interviewer for CNBC television co-hosting the Closing Bell program from 3 to 5pm weekdays ET and is the host and managing editor for the nationally syndicated Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo program.
Bartiromo is also a columnist and writer for several business and general interest magazines and the author of the book Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy. She has won awards including the Union League of Philadelphia’s Lincoln Statue Award (2004) and the Coalition of Italian-American Associations' Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997) and was nominated in 2002 for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for a series covering the widows of September 11
Bartiromo grew up in the Bay Ridge section of southern Brooklyn. As a teenager, Maria checked coats at her parents' Italian restaurant, at which her father was the chef.
Bartiromo graduated from New York University with a BA degree in journalism and a minor in economics.
On June 13, 1999, Bartiromo married Jonathan Steinberg, who is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Individual Investor Group, a financial services company in Manhattan.
Before joining CNBC in 1993, Bartiromo was a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News.
Although Bartiromo was not the first person (she took over from analyst Roy Blumberg) to report regularly live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, she quickly became the most popular. With CNBC she hosted their Marketwatch program from 10:00 to 12:00 ET, as well as being a regular contributor to Squawk Box for many years before leaving the morning program. Bartiromo was nicknamed the Money Honey during the boom years of the stock market in the late 1990s. "Money Honey" is the title of a rhythm and blues hit from the 1950s sung by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters and covered by Elvis Presley. The Bay City Rollers also covered a version of this song. She has sought to cash in on this nickname by seeking trademark protection in 2007.
In addition, she has written columns for Individual Investor, Ticker and "BusinessWeek" magazines, and she has contributed to NBC's The Today Show.
She has also made appearances on numerous non-financial television shows, including NBC Universal's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Caroline Rhea Show, and McEnroe, as well as guest-hosting on Live with Regis and Kelly.
Her first book was Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy.
Bartiromo currently (as of 2007) co-anchors with Dylan Ratigan the Closing Bell show on CNBC from 15:00 to 17:00 ET. She also anchors and co-produces Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, a CNBC show where she interviews prominent business people, entertainers, athletes, and politicians. |
