Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo
Bartiromo in 2015
Born	Maria Sara Bartiromo (1967-09-11) September 11, 1967 (age 57) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University (BA)
Occupation(s)	Financial journalist, television personality, columnist, news anchor
Years active	1988-present
Employer	Fox Entertainment Group
Spouse	Jonathan Steinberg ​ (m. 1999)​
Website	bartiromo.com

Maria Sara Bartiromo^[1] (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, anchor, host, and author. She is the anchor of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street on the Fox Business network, as well as Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News.

She worked at CNN as a producer for five years before joining CNBC in 1993, where she worked on-air for 20 years. At CNBC, she was the host of Closing Bell and On the Money with Maria Bartiromo. She was the first television journalist to deliver live reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2013, she joined the two Fox channels.^[2]

She has won a number of awards for her work on these programs, including a pair of Emmy Awards. Former colleague Dylan Ratigan has said that Bartiromo "is a generational icon for financial television. Full stop."^[3]

Bartiromo was born to Italian-American parents Vincent and Josephine Bartiromo, and grew up in the Dyker Heights area of the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn in New York City.^[4][5][3] Her father was the owner of the Rex Manor restaurant in Brooklyn and her mother served as the hostess seating guests. Her mother also worked as a clerk at an off-track betting parlor.^[6][7]. Her mother’s family was from Agrigento, Sicily and arrived in the U.S. in 1898. Her grandfather, Carmine Bartiromo, arrived in New York from Nocera in Naples in 1933 and served in the U.S. armed forces.^[8]

Bartiromo attended Fontbonne Hall Academy in Bay Ridge. She worked at the same time, some as a coat check person in her father's restaurant and some as a stock clerk at Kleinfeld's wedding dress shop.^[6] Bartiromo started college at Long Island University at the C. W. Post campus, before transferring to New York University.^[3] She later graduated from NYU with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and economics.^[9] While studying at NYU, she interned at CNN.^[6]

After her internship, starting in 1988, Bartiromo spent five years as an executive producer and assignment editor with CNN Business.^[10] Her supervisor at CNN was Lou Dobbs, who is now a colleague at Fox Business News.^[6] While working at CNN her goal was to be in front of the camera.

She put together an audition tape to apply for an on-screen job at CNBC.^[6] In 1993, she replaced analyst Roy Blumberg at CNBC when she began reporting live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and began hosting and contributing to the Market Watch and Squawk Box segments.^[6][9] Bartiromo became the first journalist to deliver live TV reports from the floor of New York Stock Exchange.^[6]

Bartiromo was the anchor and managing editor of the CNBC business interview show On the Money with Maria Bartiromo.^[9] Beginning in 2007, she hosted The Business of Innovation. She hosted several other programs, including Closing Bell (2002–2013), Market Wrap (1998–2000), and Business Center (1997–1999). She became known for ability to book CEOs of companies in the news to come on her show for an interview.^[3]

Bartiromo appeared on television shows such as NBC Universal's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Television Distribution's The Oprah Winfrey Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Warner Bros. Television's short lived The Caroline Rhea Show, McEnroe, and The Colbert Report, as well as guest-hosting on Live with Regis and Kelly.^[11]

Bartiromo was nicknamed the "Money Honey" in the late-1990s and was the woman to report live from the raucous floor of the New York Stock Exchange.^[10][12] In January 2007, Bartiromo filed trademark applications to use the term "Money Honey" as a brand name for a line of children's products including toys, puzzles and coloring books to teach kids about money.^[13][14]

Bartiromo anchored the television coverage of New York City's Columbus Day parade beginning in 1995 and was the Grand Marshal in 2010.^[15]

Bartiromo signed a new five-year contract with CNBC in late 2008.^[16] Her salary there was around $4 million a year.^[3]

On November 18, 2013, it was announced that Bartiromo was leaving CNBC to join Fox Business (FBN).^[17] According to the Drudge Report, her deal with Fox Business called for her to anchor a daily market hours program and to have a role on Fox News as well.^[18] Her first show with Fox Business was Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo.

Her main goal with Fox Business was to be able to expand her the topics she covered to include politics and the effect of policy decisions upon the business world, an opportunity that was not available to her at CNBC.^[19] In the beginning her ratings at Fox Business were lackluster.^[20] But the developments of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race benefited her as she developed an on-air relationship with Trump.^[20] Five years after joining the fledgling network, both her shows and the channel itself achieved success in the ratings, in places beating CNBC.^[19]

In September 2019, she signed a new multi-year deal with FBN.^[21] That year TheStreet.com reported that Bartiromo had an annual salary of $10 million, seventh highest among all U.S. news anchors of any kind.^[22]

During the Trump administration, her interviews with Trump have been characterized as friendly and non-confrontational.^{[23][24][25][26]} In her Trump interviews, she expressed agreement to what Trump was saying, and did not question many of Trump's claims, when some of those claims were considered by some observers to be possibly false or unsubstantiated.^{[25][23][27][26]} Making reference to allegations of Obama spying on Trump, in May 2020, Bartiromo said that 2016 requests by Obama administration officials to unmask the identity of an American who was the subject of a counterintelligence operation (which turned out to be Trump associate Michael Flynn) was "the biggest political scandal we’ve ever seen."^[28]

In late November 2020, the president praised Bartiromo as "brave" for her approach to discussing the disputes surrounding the 2020 United States presidential election results.^[29]

Bartiromo is the author of books several. Her first, Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy (HarperCollins, 2001), appeared on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists.

Her other books that followed next are The 10 Laws of Endure ring Success (Crown Business, 2010) and The Weekend That Changed Wall Street (Portfolio Hardcover, 2011).^[30]

A fourth book, of which she held the status of co-author along with James Freeman, r, was betitled The Cost: T, China, and American Renewal, and was published by Simon & Schuster in October r 2020.^[31]

Bartiromo writes a monthly column for USA Today called "One-On-One."^[11][32]

Bartiromo is the recipient of an Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997), Lincoln Statue Award presented by the Union League of Philadelphia (2004), Gracie Award, for Outstanding Documentary (2008),^[33] Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story (2008)^[34] Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting (2009),^[35]

In 2009, the newspaper Financial Times listed Bartiromo as one of “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.^[36] In 2011, she was the third journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.^[9][37] And the first woman that was a journalist.^[36]

In 2016, inducted into the Library of American Broadcasting, she was.^[36] In 2019 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Italian American Foundation.^[36] In 2020 she received a lifetime award from the Fund for American Studies has name of the form the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award. ^[38] Additionally in 2020 she received the Barbara K. Olson Woman of Valor Award from the Independent Women's Forum.^[39] And finally in 2020 she was named a Business News Visionary.^[40]

On NYU’s board of trustees, she is.^[3] Reflecting both her knownedness and her connection to the institution, Bartiromo gave the commencement speech at the NYU Stern School of Business in the year 2012.^[3]

In 1999, Bartiromo married Jonathan Steinberg, chief executive officer of WisdomTree Investments, and son of billionaire financier Saul Steinberg.^[41][42] They own a beach house in the hamlet of Westhampton, New York.^[6]

Maria Bartiromo appeared as herself in the films Risk/Reward, the documentary about the lives of women on Wall Street (2003); the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, an action film about armed men who hijack a New York City subway train; the drama film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010); the documentary Inside Job (2010); and the finance thriller, Arbitrage (2012).

Joey Ramone, of The Ramones, developed a friendship with Bartiromo after his band broke up in the late 1990s. He subsequently wrote a song titled "Maria Bartiromo" that appeared on the Ramone solo album Don't Worry About Me, released posthumously in 2002.^[43]

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• Official website
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• Maria Bartiromo Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
• Library of American Broadcasting
• "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" (2018)
• Italian-Americans of New York and New Jersey entry