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Introduction
Maria Sara Bartiromo is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on the Fox Business Network as well as Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
Bartiromo worked at CNN as a producer for five years before joining CNBC in 1993, where she worked on-air for 20 years. With CNBC, she was the host of Closing Bell and On the Money with Maria Bartiromo. She was the first television journalist to deliver live reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She has won several awards for her work on these programs, including a pair of Emmy Awards. Nicknamed the “Money Honey”, she garnered considerable attention within the financial industry in addition to in the general media. Her work for CNBC was largely non-political in its subject matter and approach. She sits on the boards of a number of non-profit and civic organizations.
In 2013, she left CNBC to host shows for Fox Corporation channels. During the presidency of Donald Trump, her Fox Business program was one of several programs that ran on-air corrections after pushing false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The abrupt change in the content and focus of Bartiromo’s work compared to that of the bulk of her career caused many media observers to wonder what caused the transformation.
Early life
| Name | Maria Bartiromo |
| Net Worth | $60 million |
| Occupation | Journalist, Television personality, News anchor, Author |
| Age | 55 years |
| Height | 1.68m |
| Husband | Jonathan Steinberg |
Maria Sara Bartiromo was born on September 11, 1967 (age 55 years) in the Dyker Heights area of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. She is the daughter of Italian-American parents, Vincent and Josephine Bartiromo. Her father was the owner of the Rex Manor restaurant in Brooklyn and her mother served as the hostess seating guests. Her mother also worked as a clerk at an off-track betting parlor. Her mother’s family was from Agrigento, Sicily, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1898. Her grandfather, Carmine Bartiromo, immigrated to the U.S. from Nocera in Campania in 1933, settling in New York and serving in the U.S. armed forces.
Bartiromo attended Fontbonne Hall Academy, an all-girls private Catholic school in Bay Ridge. She worked at the same time as a coat check person in her father’s restaurant and as a stock clerk at Kleinfeld’s wedding dress shop. She was fired from the latter for trying on newly arrived dresses before putting them away; she recalled “I cried the whole way home, but I learned a valuable lesson and that is – do your job.”
She started college at C. W. Post, before transferring to New York University. During her college years, she worked at the same betting parlor where her mother worked. She graduated from NYU’s Washington Square Campus in 1989, with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and economics. While at NYU she began with radio and got an internship with talk host Barry Farber’s show on WMCA 570 in New York after Farber visited a class she was in. Farber was impressed by her willingness and capability in doing behind-the-scenes tasks associated with the role. Following that, she interned at CNN.
Career
After Maria Bartiromo’s internship, which began in 1988/89, she spent five years as an executive producer and assignment editor with CNN Business. Her supervisor at CNN was Lou Dobbs, who later became a colleague at Fox Business News. She also worked as a production assistant for Stuart Varney there.
Bartiromo was hired by executive Roger Ailes to replace analyst Roy Blumberg at CNBC in 1993 and began reporting live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as well as hosting and contributing to the Market Watch and Squawk Box segments. Bartiromo became the first journalist to deliver live television reports from the raucous floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The Guardian newspaper described the scene as, “viewers could watch Bartiromo amid the tumult on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, straining her voice to be heard as she delivered reports to camera …, her 5ft 5in frame 1.65m often jostled by burly traders.” She has said of that innovation: “I got bumped around a little, but it was very exciting — a new, instantaneous way of reporting market news. We immediately had a big following.”
She was the anchor and managing editor of the CNBC business interview show On the Money with Maria Bartiromo (called The Wall Street Journal Report during much of this time). Beginning in 2007, she hosted The Business of Innovation. She hosted several other programs, including Closing Bell (2002–2013), Market Wrap (1998–2000), and Business Center (1997–1999). She became known for her ability to get CEOs of companies in the news to come on her show for an interview. She became influential, with the Financial Times calling her “the Sophia Loren of Wall Street.”
TV Shows
Maria Bartiromo appeared on television shows such as NBC Universal’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, CBS Television Distribution’s The Oprah Winfrey Show, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Warner Bros. Television’s short-lived The Caroline Rhea Show, CNBC’s even shorter-existing McEnroe, and Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, as well as guest-hosting on the syndicated Live with Regis and Kelly.
SEC Chair Mary Schapiro, Congressional Oversight Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair, and Maria Bartiromo of CNBC at the Women in Finance Symposium, 29 March 2010. Bartiromo was nicknamed the “Money Honey” in the mid-to-late 1990s, a moniker that she had conflicted feelings about lest it diminishes her credibility as a financial journalist. In January 2007, Bartiromo 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, to teach kids about money. By some accounts she later let the trademarks expire.
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Bartiromo anchored the television coverage of New York City’s Columbus Day Parade beginning in 1995 and was the Grand Marshal in 2010. In 2006–07 there was controversy over Bartiromo possibly being too close socially to some of the executives she was covering, which included overseas trips with some such sources. In part, that was part and parcel of her role to add “pizazz and drama”. As The New York Times wrote, “in her years as CNBC’s most recognizable face, she has lent to the reporting of once gray business news a veneer of gloss and celebrity.” But the Times noted that: “Typically, Ms. Bartiromo’s interviewing style can be probing, aggressive and, her special access notwithstanding, she can make even some of her best sources sweat a bit on camera.” CNBC defended her on the matter, saying that trips in question were properly approved and that “her journalistic integrity was never compromised”, and Bartiromo retained the confidence of NBC upper management.
Following the financial crisis of 2008, which featured the collapse of some Wall Street firms and the federal bailouts of others, Bartiromo commented in an interview: “I’m a free-market capitalist who would like to think that the market can correct itself. Unfortunately, the structures we have in place dropped the ball. The boards of directors were asleep at the wheel. So were the regulators. I believe that so-called independent boards of directors should be held accountable for their firms, too. Wall Street today faces the wrath of its shareholders and the scorn of the public. There’s got to be a substantial change from within to regain public trust.”
Bartiromo signed a new five-year contract with CNBC in late 2008. Her salary there was around $4 million a year. Former colleague Dylan Ratigan has said that Bartiromo “is a generational icon for financial television. Full stop.”
Fox Business and Fox News
On November 18, 2013, it was announced that Bartiromo was leaving CNBC to join Fox Business (FBN). According to the Drudge Report, her deal with Fox Business called for her to anchor a daily market hours program and to have a role on Fox News as well. Her first show with Fox Business was Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo. But on her Fox shows she expanded the subject domains she was covering, to include not just the stock market but also larger questions of public policy and the overall economy. Since her time with the Fox Business channel, the ratings for her show began to surge when she became an important news source for Trump supporters.
Presidential debate host
The developments of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race benefited her ratings, as she developed an on-air relationship with Trump. In regard to the 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums, she was one of three moderators for Fox Business of the debate of November 10, 2015, at the Milwaukee Theatre, and she and her colleagues were credited with keeping a focus on economics and for overseeing a largely civil discussion among the candidates. She even drew some boos from the audience for suggesting that likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had much more relevant experience than the candidates on stage.
She then co-hosted on Fox Business another Republican debate, this time on January 14, 2016, in the North Charleston Coliseum, one that was not previously planned but awarded on the basis of the first performance. One assessment of the North Charleston debate was that the moderators were initially mild but got tougher as the debate went on and delved more into matters economic.
During the 2016 general election, she commented on the differing ways that Wall Street would react to either candidate winning. She received a good deal of attention during this period for her sartorial choices for the traditional Al Smith Dinner. But as the election ran on towards its conclusion, Bartiromo took an increasingly sharp pro-Trump stance, such as repeating trolling Internet posts attacking Clinton.
Donald Trump presidency
After Donald Trump became president in 2017, she became an advocate for the Trump administration, frequently repeating administration talking points. She also gave friendly, non-challenging softball interviews to Trump and amplified Trump administration conspiracy theories and falsehoods. In her Trump interviews, she expressed agreement with and did not question Trump’s claims, many of which had been debunked as false or unsubstantiated. Making reference to allegations that Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, used the U.S. intelligence community to spy on the Trump campaign and transition.
Maria Bartiromo said that 2016 requests by Obama administration officials to unmask the identity of an American who was the subject of a counterintelligence operation (who turned out to be Trump associate Michael Flynn) were “the biggest political scandal we’ve ever seen.” Attorney general Bill Barr named federal prosecutor John Bash to lead an investigation, which concluded months later with no findings of substantive wrongdoing and no public report.
In late November 2020, after Trump lost his bid for reelection, Bartiromo conducted the first post-election interview with Trump. In the interview, she backed Trump’s false claims of election fraud and his attempt to overturn the election results, claiming that Trump was being overthrown in a “coup”. Bartiromo was criticized for her conduct in the 45-minute interview, in which she never asked Trump to substantiate his claims of fraud. Brian Stelter of CNN recalled the “Maria Bartiromo who was once a feared and acclaimed journalist, best known for working the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, forcing CEOs to tell the truth.” Trump praised Bartiromo as being “brave” for her approach to discussing the disputes.
Bartiromo then defended herself by claiming that much of the media, such as CNN and The New York Times, were taking a side and engaging in “election interference”. In his November 2021 book, Betrayal, former ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl reported a November 2020 incident when Bartiromo called attorney general Bill Barr “to complain that the DOJ hadn’t done anything to stop the Democrats from stealing the election.” Barr told Karl, “She called me up and she was screaming. I yelled back at her. She’s lost it.”
She was an outspoken proponent on her program of baseless allegations that rigged voting machines stole the election from Donald Trump. Hosts Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro also promoted falsehoods in their programs. Attorneys for Smartmatic, a voting machine company that had been baselessly accused of conspiring with competitor Dominion Voting Systems to rig the election, sent Fox News a letter in December 2020 threatening legal action and demanding retractions that “must be published on multiple occasions” so as to “match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications.” The three programs each ran the same three-minute video segment refuting the baseless allegations days later, consisting of an election security expert being interviewed by an unseen and unidentified man, though none of the three hosts personally issued retractions.
In January 2021, after the storming of the U.S. Capitol that was carried out by a mob of supporters of Trump, Bartiromo hosted Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro on her show, where he falsely claimed in the interview that Trump had won the election. Bartiromo concurred, falsely claiming, “We know that there were irregularities in this election.” In a broadcast on January 19, she falsely claimed that Democrats wore MAGA clothing and were behind the storming of the Capitol. In July 2021, Bartiromo referenced Ashli Babbitt, who was shot while part of a pro-Trump mob trying to push through a barricaded door inside the U.S. Capitol building, a “wonderful woman” who “went to peaceful protest.”
Rating success
Five years after joining the fledgling network, both her shows and the channel itself were surpassing CNBC in audience size some of the time. In September 2019, she signed a new multi-year deal with FBN. That year, TheStreet.com reported that Bartiromo had an annual salary of $10 million, the seventh-highest among American television news anchors of any kind. During the latter part of January 2021, at the outset of the Biden administration, Fox News gave Bartiromo a trial run to head one of Fox News’ primetime slots, the new weekday 7 p.m. Fox News Primetime political opinions show. Her guest-hosting stint began the week of January 25, 2021.
In February 2021, Smartmatic sued Fox Corporation, Fox News, Bartiromo, Dobbs, and Pirro, for defamation, seeking $2.7 billion in damages. In response her lawyers moved to have the case against her dismissed, saying that she was just reporting on presidential claims during a historically controversial election and that Smartmatic was really trying to make up for poor business performance: “This complaint is not just meritless; it is a legal shakedown designed to chill speech and punish reporting on issues that cut to the heart of our democracy”. Dobbs (by then off the air at FBN) and Pirro filed separate but similar motions for dismissal.
Awards, Honors, Books, and other publications
Maria Bartiromo is the author of several books. Her first was Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy (HarperCollins, 2001). It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller List, and additively on similar lists in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Her next two books were The 10 Laws of Enduring Success (Crown Business, 2010) and The Weekend That Changed Wall Street (Portfolio Hardcover, 2011). A fourth book, of which she held the status of co-author along with James Freeman, was titled The Cost: Trump, China, and American Renewal (Simon & Schuster, 2020).
Bartiromo is the recipient of an Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997); a Lincoln Statue Award presented by the Union League of Philadelphia (2004); a Gracie Award, for Outstanding Documentary (2008); and two Emmy Awards, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story (2008) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting (2009).
In 2009, the Financial Times listed Bartiromo as one of “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade”. In 2011, she was the third journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. In 2016, she was inducted into the Library of American Broadcasting. The Maria Bartiromo Broadcast Journalism Studio at Fontbonne Hall Academy, the high school she attended, is named after her. She was the keynote speaker for Fontbonne’s 80th anniversary gala in 2018.
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Bartiromo is on the board of trustees of New York University, her alma mater. She gave the commencement speech at the NYU Stern School of Business in 2012. She has also taught there, acting as an adjunct professor at the Stern School from 2010 to 2013. The seminar that she co-taught in the fall of 2010, titled “Global Markets and Normative Frameworks”, filled its registration in 10 minutes.
She has also been on the board of trustees for the New York City Ballet. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Economic Club of New York. She has been on the board also for the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and also on that of Public Education Needs Civic Involvement and Leadership (PENCIL) in New York and overseas the Board of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, and in 2010 was the Grand Marshall of the Columbus Day Parade.
Joey Ramone of the punk rock pioneers The Ramones, developed a friendship with Bartiromo after his band broke up in the late 1990s. He subsequently wrote a song titled “Maria Bartiromo” that appeared on his solo album Don’t Worry About Me, released posthumously in 2002. However, Bartiromo appeared as herself in the films Risk/Reward, the documentary about the lives of women on Wall Street (2003); the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, an action film about armed men who hijack a New York City subway train; the sequel drama film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010); the documentary Inside Job (2010); and the finance thriller, Arbitrage (2012).
Husband
Mari Bartiromo is married to her longtime boyfriend Jonathan Steinberg, they had their wedding in 1999. Her husband is the chief executive officer of WisdomTree Investments and the son of billionaire financier Saul Steinberg. She had first met him in 1990, soon after her college graduation. The ceremony was held at the home of the bridegroom and was officiated over by a rabbi. The couple owns a beach house in the hamlet of Westhampton, New York. They have also lived in a five-story townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Maria Bartiromo net worth
How much is Maria Bartiromo worth? Maria Bartiromo net worth is estimated at around $60 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a television news anchor and journalist. Bartiromo successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and influential television news presenters and journalists in the United States. Her salary per month and other career earnings are over $4 million dollars annually.