Business Broadcasting's All-Stars
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Print and TV newsrooms alike are abuzz with gossip over who’ll end up in front of the camera at the emerging Fox News business channel, slated to launch this fall. While Fox News already has its own headliners in business TV—Neil Cavuto, Brenda Buttner, and Terry Keenan—it will need to hire and develop more. Broadcast employers like Fox are keeping an eye on these rising stars from elsewhere around the dial.
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Margaret Brennan, CNBC
Brennan, 27, began at CNBC as a producer for financial-news guru Louis Rukeyser and went on to produce interviews with President Bush and former secretary of state Colin Powell for Street Signs With Ron Insana. On air, she supplies stories for On the Money, co-anchors Marketwrap Updates on MSNBC, and contributes to The Today Show.
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Dylan Ratigan, CNBC
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Ratigan’s shining moment was likely his prediction of the February 2007 market crash—and then his coverage as it developed, tick by tick. This 35 year-old former Bloomberg global-managing editor co-anchors CNBC’s popular Closing Bell and hosts the gabfest Fast Money. He also helped launch the evening program On the Money.
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Monica Bertran, Bloomberg TV
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Bertran, 40, the host of Bloomberg’s Market Pulse, has become one of the most recognizable faces on the network since joining it in 1992. Reporting from the New York Stock Exchange, she has landed interviews with the likes of Goldman Sachs chief investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
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Carl Quintanilla, CNBC
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Quintanilla, 36, has won three prestigious awards: an Emmy for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Edward R. Murrow award, and a Peabody award. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he co-anchors Squawk Box and occasionally appears on NBC’s Today and NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams.
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Daniel Sieberg, CBS
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Sieberg, 35, is a Peabody award winner for his Hurricane Katrina coverage at CNN. In December 2006, he joined CBS News as a science and technology correspondent, and he now files reports for three broadcasts: CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, the Early Show, and CBS News Sunday Morning.
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Becky Quick, CNBC
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As co-anchor of Squawk Box, Quick, 35, landed a key interview with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, in which he told her on-air about the Chinese government’s investment in the Blackstone Group. A former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, Quick covered retail, e-commerce, and internet-privacy issues, and helped establish Wall Street Journal Online.
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Ali Velshi, CNN
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Velshi, 37, is one of CNN’s hardest-working business reporters: He’s the network’s senior business correspondent; co-anchor of In the Money, its weekend business program; and a reporter for American Morning. He also helps produce a video podcast called "Show and Tell", about technology and gadgets.
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Gerri Willis, CNN
Prior to joining CNN, Willis, 48, was a senior financial correspondent for Smart Money magazine and authored The Smart Money Guide to Real Estate Investing. She’s now anchor of the weekend show Open House and personal-finance editor for CNN Business News.
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Carol Massar, Bloomberg TV
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Massar, 43, anchors three programs: Morning Call, Bloomberg on the Markets, and the weekend arts show Muse. She got her start as a producer at the defunct cable channel Financial News Network and later worked at Dow Jones business-TV networks in Asia and Europe, before those shows were acquired by CNBC.
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