is today's best-known and perhaps most influential financial journalist. The world of Wall Street was not far from her native Brooklyn, where she grew up checking coats at her parents' Italian restaurant. She graduated from New York University, with a major in journalism and minor in economics.
Bartiromo started out behind the camera - first as a news associate, and later as a producer - at CNN Business News. Then, in 1995, as a reporter for CNBC, Bartiromo became the first journalist to report live each day from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She did so for 10 years. She rose to prominence covering breaking news for the network's morning program, Squawk Box. Joey Ramone even wrote a song about her.
Bartiromo is known for her market-moving interviews with the most powerful names in business. Perhaps her most celebrated scoop came in May, 2006 when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told her the markets had misinterpreted his comments about the economy. In 2002, Bartiromo was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her piece on the widows of September 11th.
Bartiromo reaches a huge global audience as the anchor and managing editor of the world's top-rated weekly business program, The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, and the daily Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, the #1 cable financial news channel. She is syndicated nationwide on radio, delivering a daily "Your Money Matters" feature over the Clear Channel network. She also writes regular columns for BusinessWeek and Reader's Digest.
