Erin Burnett: How CNBC Made Its Latest (And Rising) Star
ONLY days into a new job at CNBC two and a half years ago, Erin Burnett was settling into orientation when the network decided to put her on camera. ...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: the Media Circus over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
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Who knew that when Bryan Burrough fingered CNBC for helping kill off Bear Stearns Cos., he was starting a minitrend?
Fox Business Snatches WSJ's Walt Mossberg From CNBC
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
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You had to know Rupert Murdoch's fledgling Fox Business Network would get something out of this whole Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal acquisition. Well,...
CNBC Documentary: "Rise Of The Super Rich" (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
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CNBC aired a documentary on the 'Super-rich' on 6/26/08. The documentary focused on the excesses of the super-rich, various psychological analyses of ...
Did CNBC Kill Bear Stearns?
Huffington Post | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
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Next month's Vanity Fair features a fantastic dissection of Bear Stearns' collapse by Bryan Burroughs. One undercurrent the article explores is the r...
CNBC Booming In Spite Of Economic Bust
Variety | John Dempsey | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
One area where the war between Fox and NBC hasn't gotten too bloody -- at least yet -- is business news, if only because CNBC is on a roll. The netwo...
Donny Deutsch, Ratings Disaster: So Low They Don't Even Register
Huffington Post | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
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Last month, Portfolio.com's Jeff Bercovici mocked the notion that Donny Deutch's "The Big Idea" was CNBC's "stake in the ground against Fox in primeti...
The Press Polishes the McCain "Brand"
Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
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By discussing McCain in terms of a formal brand, the press suggests that McCain's reputation as a maverick has become so embedded, so ingrained, that it has transcended into a formal trademark.
From Bar Mitzvah Thousands to Bar Mitzvah Millions: Tim Sykes Launches New Site
Eric Kuhn | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
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Timothy Sykes turned $12,415 of his Bar Mitzvah money into $1.65 million, and then he lost it. Sykes, now 27 years old, wants his full $1.65 million back, and he is bringing his fans along the way with a detailed step-by-step blog.
Welch On GE's Immelt: "He's Getting His Ass Kicked"
Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business
What does former GE (GE) boss and straight-from-the-gut management superstar Jack Welch think caused GE's first quarter bomb? Is GE's model broken? (C...
Feeble GE Profits Shake Markets
Bloomberg | Raychel Lane | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
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General Electric Co. reported its first decline in quarterly profit since 2003, missing analyst estimates with a 12 percent drop in earnings as a free...
Jim Cramer: I Get Death Threats From Irate CNBC Viewers
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
Some CNBC viewers express their loathing of Jim Cramer by threatening to kill him, Cramer says. Having gotten some death threats of our own back in th...
Merrill Lynch To "Quietly" Cut Up To 15 Percent Of Workforce
CNBC | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
Merrill Lynch is now planning to cut 10% to 15% of its workforce--excluding brokers--sometime in May, CNBC has learned. Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain ...
How Fox Business Has Only Made CNBC Stronger
Fortune | Jessi Hempel | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media
Six months after Rupert Murdoch launched a business network set to take out the peacock with the same tenacity that Fox News tromped CNN, quite the op...
Cramer Cracks Spitzer Joke While Discussing New Paulson Plan
Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
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While discussing Henry Paulson's new regulatory plans on CNBC Monday morning, talking head Greg Valliere, a Chief Strategist at the Stanford Washingto...
Should You Avoid Jim Cramer?
ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
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He might be the most-celebrated stock-picker on TV, but many say Jim Cramer got it wrong and some have renewed an older criticism of the television ho...
Sorry, Fox Business! CNBC Has Best Week In Five Years
The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.25.2008 | Media
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CNBC has the last laugh on Fox Business. Just yesterday, Fox Business bought ad space in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal slamming CNBC...
Fox Business Ad Slams CNBC, Cramer For Bear Stearns Remarks
Huffington Post via TVNewser | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
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Jim Cramer appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" yesterday and (kind of) owned up to his "Bear Stearns is fine" comments just a week before the investm...
Did Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz Lie on CNBC?
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
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One thing is certain about the collapse of Bear Stearns (BSC): It will generate hundreds of millions--if not billions--of legal fees. Some of the fees...
Bernanke Tries Cialis to Stimulate Dormant Economy
Linda Keenan | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
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The pill gave the markets a quick burst, but the fast-acting stimulus soon wore off, leaving investors unimpressed and thoroughly unsatisfied.
"Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo Sells Book For $500K
New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has sold a book to Crown, a division of Random House, for an advance several knowledgable sources said was in the neighbor...
CNN Gives Biz Sites Run for Their "Money"
AdAge | Brian Steinberg | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
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Energetic newscaster Poppy Harlow stands in front of a wall of stock charts discussing Starbucks' recent decision to close outlets for three hours to ...
Clinton Sounds Off On Fixed Mortgages, Ethanol, And Taxes On CNBC
CNBC | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
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Appearing on CNBC's "Mad Money w/Jim Cramer" today, Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, called for a 90-day moratorium on forec...
Wall Street Rallies on Buffett News
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...
NBC's Zucker: Fox Business News Irrelevant, CNBC Ratings Rock
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 02.04.2008 | Business
The launch of Fox Business News hasn't cost CNBC a single viewer, NBC head Jeff Zucker implies in a conference call with JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan....
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