Inside CNBC’s strategy on Facebook Live
Jessica Davies of Digiday writes about how CNBC is using Facebook Live for its “Street Signs Europe” show. Davies writes, “Speaking to Digiday a few hours after the first Facebook Live show stream, CNBC International’s social media editor Cristina Garratt, said the Brexit outcome is one of those moments when finance and business news becomes mainstream. Like […]
CNBC hires reporter in San Francisco
Nik Deogun, senior vice president and editor in chief of CNBC, sent out the following announcement on Monday: I am pleased to announce that Aditi Roy is joining CNBC as a general assignment reporter based in San Francisco, effective July 18th. Aditi comes to us from ABC News where she was a West Coast correspondent reporting […]
CNBC takes show to Facebook Live
CNBC will stream its daily morning show “Street Signs” on its Facebook page to tap into a resurgence of digital viewers after seeing a spike in traffic to its site since the EU referendum, reports Jessica Goodfellow of The Drum. Goodfellow writes, “CNBC International, Europe’s number one business and financial news channel, has reported an unprecedented volume of […]
CNBC becomes No. 1 in online biz video
CNBC has become the No. 1 business and financial website for videos, according to the latest data from comScore. CNBC Digital video reached the No. 1 position in the business/finance news category by posting its best May ever with 13.2 million unique video viewers, up 82 percent year-over-year, according to the May 2016 comScore multi-platform report US. […]
Fox Business remains fastest-growing cable channel
Fox Business Network, which ended 2015 as the fastest-growing cable news channel, has continued that growth in the first half of 2016, according to Nielsen Media Research. The eight-year-old network reported an average of 128,000 total viewers during the 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. business day slot, an increase of 113 percent, making it once […]
Mary Thompson is leaving CNBC
Mary Thompson, a reporter at CNBC for the past 16 years, is leaving the business news network. Her last day is July 1. In an email to Talking Biz News, Thompson wrote, “I have had the privilege of working at CNBC for 16 years and in journalism for 25 years. The decision to leave was […]
Fox Business ratings tops for Brexit
Fox Business Network‘s special coverage of the British referendum to leave the European Union recorded more viewers than rival CNBC on Thursday evening, according to Nielsen Media Research data. However, CNBC had more viewers in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic. The special edition of “Varney & Co.” anchored by Stuart Varney on Fox Business averaged 238,000 […]
CNBC hires Mercado to cover personal finance
Business journalist Darla Mercado has been hired by CNBC to cover personal finance. She starts July 5. For the past year, Mercado has been working at the Pension Resource Institute, an ERISA compliance consulting firm that works with registered investment advisory firms and broker-dealers. Before that, she was a reporter for Investment News, where she […]
CNBC is No. 1 biz news outlet in Europe, says IPSOS
CNBC retained its position as the top business and financial news outlet in Europe, reaching 6.9 million affluent Europeans each month, according to the IPSOS Affluent Survey Europe report. With a cross-platform monthly reach of 13.4 percent from January to December 2015, CNBC is ahead of Bloomberg (11.7 percent), Time (10.1 percent), Financial Times (10 percent), Economist (9 […]
CNBC reports NFL commissioner dead after Twitter hacked
CNBC inaccurately reported that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had died after the league’s Twitter account was hacked, reports Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood. Patten reports, “At around 12:40 PM ET Tuesday, a graphic appeared at the bottom of CNBC’s screen announcing that the NFL boss had passed away. While the network never cut to a story on Goodell supposedly being […]
