Maria Sara Bartiromo is an American television journalist, magazine columnist and author of three books. She is host of Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo and is Global Markets editor at Fox Business Network as well as the host of Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo o...
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
TV Shows
America Now, Street Signs, Mornings with Maria, Closing Bell, Squawk Box, NBC Nightly News, Market Week, Market Wrap, Business Center
Star Sign
Virgo
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Moving from CNBC to Fox Business Network [November 18, 2013].
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Inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011 in Chicago.
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In January 2007, she 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.
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Was the Grand Marshal for the 2010 New York City Columbus Day Parade.
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Has received several awards including the Union League of Philadelphia's Lincoln Statue Award (2004) and the Coalition of Italian-American Association's Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997) and was nominated in 2002 for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her series on the widows of September 11.
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Will be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Her husband, Jonathan Steinberg, is a publisher and the son of financier Saul Steinberg. Jonathan is the founder and CEO of WisdomTree Investments, a financial investment services company in Manhattan.
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Youngest of Vincent and Josephine Bartiromo's three children.
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Raised in Bay Ridge, an Italian working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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After graduation from Fontbonne Hall Academy, a local Catholic girls' school, she went to Long Island University before transferring to New York University.
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Got her first TV job in 1987, as an intern with CNN.
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Joined CNBC in August, 1993.
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Does not like to use credit cards.
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When she and her siblings were young, their mother invested in Christmas clubs.
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Has a brother and a sister.
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As a teenager, she checked coats at her parents' Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. Her father was the chef.
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In 1995, became first journalist -- man or woman -- to report live on TV daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.