Diaz leaves senior producer position at CNBC
Amanda Diaz is leaving her senior producer position at CNBC. Diaz has worked for over nine years at the organization, and has served various roles at CNBC. She has been a senior producer since January 2018. Prior to her time as a senior producer, Diaz worked as a CNBC coordinating producer from September 2016 to […]
CNBC.com seeks business and politics reporter
Do you have a passion for business and politics? CNBC.com seeks an exceptional reporter to join its growing team of editors and reporters. This person will focus on and seek to break news where business and politics collide. The focus will be on how business looks to set the policy agenda and how it responds […]
CNBC.com hires two new reporters
CNBC.com managing editor Jeffrey McCracken sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday: I am pleased to announce two more new hires for the CNBC.com newsroom. First, Emma Newburger has been hired as a general assignment reporter who will support our weekend coverage. Emma will also write about climate change and its impact […]
CNBC, Fox Business go ad free to cover market drop
Both CNBC and Fox Business stopped running advertising on Monday to provide coverage of the stock market drop, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg reports, “The NBCUniversal-owned business-news cable network interrupted programming with just a single commercial break between 9:30 a.m. and noon, according to a person familiar with the matter, and was expected to […]
CNBC makes promotions across business day programming
Craig Bengtson, vice president of CNBC Business News Programming, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: In recent months, CNBC Business Day has created a successful, reporter-focused program, “The Exchange,” and invested in new technology including augmented reality to better tell data-driven stories. Now, we are in the process of evolving the presentations of each […]
CNBC names managing editor and VP of news
Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of business news at CNBC, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: At CNBC, we consistently strive to deliver world-class coverage that provides our viewers with the business and markets news they demand. With that in mind, I am excited to announce key leadership team appointments that will take our […]
Shannon Pettypiece joins NBC News Digital
NBC News Digital has hired Shannon Pettypiece as a senior White House reporter. NBC News Digital includes respected brands such as NBCNews.com, tv.msnbc.com, TODAY.com, iVIllage, Breaking News, theGrio.com, NBCLatino.com and NBCPolitics.com. Pettypiece previously worked at Bloomberg for 13 years, focusing specifically on the economy and health care. Her most recent position was as a White […]
CNBC hires Wayland to cover auto beat
Michael Wayland is joining CNBC in July from Automotive News to cover the global auto industry, according to an email to CNBC staffers on Friday. It stated: [Michael] will be based in Detroit and focus on all the news coming out of global automakers such as General Motors, Ford and Toyota. He will report on […]
CNBC’s Gharagozlou to join MSNBC weekend show
CNBC producer Leila Gharagozlou will leave the network to join “Up on MSNBC,” the network’s weekend morning show hosted by David Gura. She made the announcement Thursday on Twitter. Prior to CNBC, Gharagozlou was an associate producer at Bloomberg and, prior to that, held production internships with ABC News and CNN. She earned a bachelor’s […]
CNBC primetime head Ackerman is departing
CNBC executive Jim Ackerman, who has overseen the business-focused news channel’s primetime strategy, is departing the network, reports Rick Porter of Hollywood Reporter. Porter reports, “Ackerman, executive vp primetime alternative at CNBC, is leaving after seven years in which he was the architect of a revamped nighttime programming block designed to keep viewers watching after the markets […]
