Margaret Brennan

The Ticker (Business Network Edition): Brennan, Bartiromo, Francis... - Posted March 7, 2012
Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan talks with Silicon Republic about the impact of the current economic climate on journalism. "People used to be able to work on a story for a longer period of time," she says. "There are very few news organizations that still invest in that.... [TVNewser]

Broadcast, Cable Networks Plan State of the Union Coverage - Posted January 24, 2012
All four major broadcast networks, along with the cable news channels and the business networks, are planning special coverage for President Obama's third State of the Union address. The broadcast networks will kick off special coverage beginning at 9pmET -- anchored by ... [TVNewser]

Cable, Broadcast, Business Networks Plan For Obama's Joint Address to Congress - Posted September 8, 2011
The broadcast networks will all lead in to tonight's 7 p.m. presidential address with their normal nightly newscasts. All three networks will offer post-game analysis -- anchored by George Stephanopoulos... [FishbowlNY]

Margaret Brennan on her 'Grad School for Television' - Posted July 13, 2011
Two years ago today, Margaret Brennan went on the air at Bloomberg TV. After spending 7 years at CNBC, Brennan found herself at the center of the financial information company's renewed effort to pull in more viewers to its TV network. How's it going? Well, for one, the network is now... [TVNewser]

Margaret Brennan on the 'Long, Drawn-Out' Decision to leave CNBC for Bloomberg - Posted July 12, 2011
Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan watched too much news as a kid, at least that's what her mom tells her. In part II of our Media Beat interview, Brennan, the anchor of Bloomberg's "In Business" (9-11amET), tells us how she landed at CNBC and the "long, drawn-out few months" of deciding to... [TVNewser]

Bloomberg TV Special on Rupert Murdoch - Posted July 11, 2011
Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan -- our guest on this week's Media Beat -- is hosting a one-hour special on Bloomberg TV tonight called 'Rupert Murdoch: A Special Report.' The special at 9pmET provi... [TVNewser]

Margaret Brennan on what makes Bloomberg TV different from CNBC and FBN - Posted July 11, 2011
Margaret Brennan wasn't planning a career in TV news. A self-described "foreign policy geek," who minored in Arabic in college, Brennan thought she'd be working for the State Department. But having worked at now two of the three U.S. business networks, she's learned a thing or two about diplomacy. In Part I... [TVNewser]

Bloomberg Targets CNBC in Ad Campaign - Posted June 22, 2011
Bloomberg TV is launching its first advertising campaign, seeking to steal viewers away from cable business news leader CNBC. The campaign will be focused on the New York tri-state area (where most of the Wall St. power brokers live and work) and will feature both television and out-of-home spots. Bloomberg TV's Margaret... [TVNewser]

Bloomberg's Al Hunt Joins Riff Raff of Twitter - Posted June 17, 2011
Al Hunt, Executive Editor for Bloomberg News in Washington and former bureau chief and executive Washington editor for WSJ (he was at WSJ for 35 years) sent his first tweet today...to Bloomberg TV anchor Margaret Brennan. "For a guy my age it was really an adjustment," Hunt, 68, mused. He went on to... [FishbowlDC]

Cable News Channels, Anchors and Reporters Pay Tribute to CNBC's Mark Haines - Posted May 25, 2011
The news of CNBC anchor Mark Haines' death has been reverberating through the TV news business, and a number of other cable news channels took time out of their programming to pay tribute. ... [TVNewser]

A Tale of Two Business Reporters: Brennan Receieves Praise, While Kneale Gets a Critic - Posted February 20, 2011
There was a pair of articles on Friday about reporters at the "other" business networks, Bloomberg TV and Fox Business Network, and the two could not be more different. On one side, there is Marketwatch.com's ... [TVNewser]

Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan and Lara Setrakian Report Live From Cairo - Posted February 11, 2011
Time to fire up the Bloomberg-ABC News rumor mill again. As we reported earlier, all three business news channels had live coverage as Hosni Mubarak relinquished power in Egypt. Both Bloomberg and Fox Business Network have correspondents in Cairo, filing reports over the past few days. In the case of Bloomberg, ... [TVNewser]

NewsPro Names '10 Most Powerful In TV Financial News' - Posted December 15, 2010
NewsPro, a news trade magazine produced by the team behind TVWeek.com, has announced its "10 Most Powerful in TV Financial News" for 2010. All three cable business networks--CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business--made the cut, as did a number of talent from the ch... [TVNewser]

Al Hunt Loses UVA Bet with Margaret Brennan - Posted July 2, 2010
Bloomberg's Washington executive editor Al Hunt lost a bet with anchor Margaret Brennan about whether the regulatory reform bill would be passed by July 4th. The price? Hunt got stuck wearing a University of Virgnia sweatshirt on air. Brennan: "You are a man of your word here, Al." ... [TVNewser]

Bloomberg's Al Hunt Loses a Bet (Hence the Sweatshirt) - Posted July 2, 2010
Several weeks ago Bloomberg's Al Hunt and Margaret Brennan made a bet that if the regulatory reform bill wasn't passed by July 4th, Hunt would wear a UVA sweatshirt (Margaret's alma mater) on air. Well it hasn't passed and he's wearing the sweatshirt today. ... [FishbowlDC]

Margaret Brennan to the Gulf - Posted June 13, 2010
•We've seen lots of cable and network anchors heading to the Gulf, but the biz nets are in on it now as well. Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan heads down to the Gulf Coast to anchor a special two-hour "In Business" Monday. The 10amET program will be broadcast from Pensacola,... [TVNewser]

Greece Protests Drive Dow Down. Biz Nets, Cable Nets go Full-Bore - Posted May 6, 2010
At 2:48pmET, as the cable news channels showed live pictures of riots in Athens, Greece, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 995 points. Several correspondents from the busi... [TVNewser]

Margaret Brennan: 'Here, Information Is Paramount Before the Personality' - Posted April 7, 2010
•Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan tells Talking Biz News that, while she doesn't watch much Fox Business, her current work is quite different from her old network, CNBC. "There's just a different resource allocation here. And I think because of that, it allows Bloo... [TVNewser]

The Women of Bloomberg? - Posted March 22, 2010
Page Six "hears" that Bloomberg is trying to compete with Fox News in the female anchor department with recent hires. Former-CNBCer Margaret Brennan and former-ABCer Gigi Stone joined the business news network in 2009. In March, both ... [TVNewser]

'I Would Have Laughed Out Loud' - Posted February 10, 2010
•"If you told me at age 18 or even at age 22 that I'd be doing this for a living, I would have laughed out loud," Bloomberg anchor Margaret Brennan explains to News on Women. "I thought... [TVNewser]

Business Nets Prep for World Economic Forum - Posted January 25, 2010
Starting Wednesday, business, government, and cultural leaders from 90 countries will descend on Davos, Switzerland for the 40th World Economic Forum, and so will the business networks. Here are the coverage plans so far for the event. We'll update if additional information becomes available. Bloomberg will have ... [TVNewser]

Has The Economic Crisis Changed Financial News ? - Posted December 30, 2009
This week C-SPAN is airing a panel discussion about the role of financial media during the economic crisis. Among the participants, Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan and Alan Murray,... [TVNewser]

Journalists Examine Cable News' Role in Financial Crisis - Posted November 19, 2009
TVNewser was up at the space-station that is the Bloomberg building yesterday for the "Covering the Crisis" panel moderated by author and journalist Michael Lewis. The event was co-hosted by Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, and both Bloomberg media CEO ... [TVNewser]

The Business Net Dog Fight - Posted November 13, 2009
Vanity Fair's Mark Pressman looks at the state of affairs in business news, particularly how successful or unsuccessful Fox Business Network has been. He also writes about the current strategies on challenging CNBC: Fox Business Network's strategy from the outset has been to go after business-minded viewers who may be turned... [TVNewser]

Margaret Brennan's New Gig: Bloomberg TV - Posted September 4, 2009
Bloomberg Anchor Margaret Brennan sat down with TVNewser recently to discuss her new job and the transition from CNBC where she'd been working for seven years. Her first day on air was July 13th and now that she's settled in a bit (and can spend less of her day c... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List 06.24.09 - Posted June 24, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. What we know and what we're reading this Wednesda... [FishbowlDC]

Margaret Brennan Jumps from CNBC to Bloomberg - Posted June 23, 2009
Insiders tell TVNewser CNBC correspondent Margaret Brennan is leaving the network to take an anchor job at BloombergTV. Brennan has been a correspondent with CNBC since 2006. She joined the network as a producer for ... [TVNewser]

CNBC Toasts Jonathan Wald - Posted March 31, 2009
Nothing like a little Veuve Clicquot to round out a 16-year career with NBC. This was Jonathan Wald's last day on the job as CNBC SVP. At 4pm, co-workers gathered in the CNBC boardroom for a goodbye toast. In attendance, CNBC president ... [TVNewser]

Apprentice No More, Rebecca Jarvis Covers the Financial Storm - Posted December 4, 2008
Today CNBC correspondent Rebecca Jarvis is reporting from the Mall of America. She and her CNBC colleagues Margaret Brennan and ... [TVNewser]