CNBC senior VP Kevin Krim and his wife Marina Krim are expecting a baby boy. The couple announced the news on the Facebook page of the Lulu & Leo Fund, a non-profit established in honor of their late children.

“Nessie can’t wait to welcome her new baby brother. We are filled with many emotions as we look to the future, but the most important one is hope,” the couple wrote.

Lulu and Leo Krim were killed by their nanny in October, 2012, discovered by their mother after returning home with their sister Nessie. It became a national story, and drew coverage from TV news organizations from across the country.

The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, pleaded not guilty in November of that year, and was found fit for trial last month.

As TVNewser first heard back in April, CNBC has named Kelly Evans as a new co-anchor on “Squawk on the Street,” the business channel’s 9 AM-12 PM program. Evans will effectively be replacing Melissa Lee, who cut back her hours on the morning program last month. She will be joining the current “Squawk” team, which includes Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer, David Faber and Simon Hobbs.

Evans is moving to CNBC’s headquarters in New Jersey from London, where she has been the co-host of ‘Worldwide Exchange,” which airs from 4-6 AM on the east coast. She joined CNBC in February, 2012 from the Wall Street Journal, adding co-anchor duties to “Worldwide Exchange” in May of that year.

CNBC senior VP Nik Deogun made the Evans announcement in a note to staff this morning. Read it below.
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CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo is beefing up her representation team, as she readies for new contract with negotiations with NBC… or possibly another network.

Deadline reports that the Creative Artists Agency has signed Bartiromo as a client, and “will be represented by the agency in all areas.”

Bartiromo’s contract is set to expire towards the end of the year, a source in the agent community says. If a new deal with CNBC cannot be reached, CAA would be able to shop her services around to other channels.

Bartiromo is currently the anchor of “Closing Bell” and “On the Money,” and is one of CNBC’s most recognizable faces.

(h/t Johnny $ Place)

CNBC is reporting on competitor Bloomberg over accusations Bloomberg journalists used the company’s data terminals to track and gain information on users, in some cases, government officials.

Both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are examining the extent Bloomberg terminal usage by top officials might have been tracked, CNBC’s Steve Liesman reports.

CNBC talked with a former Bloomberg employee who says he accessed usage information of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He said he did it ”just for fun” and as a way “to show how powerful” the Bloomberg terminals were.

CNBC got a response from a Bloomberg spokesperson who said, “What you are reporting is untrue” but declined to respond when asked what specifically was inaccurate. He also would not say whether the company had investigated journalist access to the terminals.

Bloomberg CEO Dan Doctoroff released a statement saying, “Last month we changed our policy so that all reporters only have access to the same customer-relationship data available to our clients.” Doctoroff added: “reporters could not see news stories that clients read, or the securities they viewed.”

CNBC competes with Bloomberg in reporting and distributing business news on TV and online.

CNBC’s Brian Shactman is moving to MSNBC. Starting Monday, he’ll host “Way Too Early” the network’s 5:30m show. “I’m just extremely excited and grateful for the opportunity and i’ll be there between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. if anyone wants to say hello,” Schactman said on “Morning Joe” today. Willie Geist, who now co-anchors the “Today” show’s 9am hour, was the original host of “Way Too Early.”

More: Official announcement after the jump…

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Ah, the perils of live TV. Just seconds before CNBC’s Becky Quick began interviewing billionaire Warren Buffett, a bird decided to go rogue.

“We are in a big hanger, there are a lot of birds,” Quick old her colleagues afterwards. “One pooped on my head 10 seconds before we came back to air!”

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Elsewhere, an “Entertainment Tonight” interview with Jennifer Lopez was apparently interrupted by gunshots. The new York Post has more.

Last night Yahoo! held its “NewFront” event at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square, and the digital media company announced expanded content deals with its two big TV news partners, ABC News and CNBC.

ABC, of course, has a major deal with the company, particularly with “Good Morning America,” which has a digital presence powered by Yahoo!

“One of the big secrets to the success of Good Morning America is goodmorningamerica.com, powered by Yahoo!” said ABC News president Ben Sherwood on stage at the event.

Now, ABC is bringing what Sherwood called the “secret sauce” from its Yahoo! agreement to “ABC World News” and “Nightline.”

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The NBCUniversal News group is planning an editorial initiative over the next couple of days to put a spotlight on immigration reform in America.

The coverage will culminate Friday evening on “Rock Center,” with Brian Williams interviewing Laurene Powell Jobs–the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs–about her work advocating for young, undocumented immigrants. It will be Jobs’ first interview since her husband’s death.

Other coverage includes a number of stories on the NBC news programs, analysis of the political debates on MSNBC, coverage of the economic impact of immigration on CNBC and a number of stories on NBCLatino.com and Thegrio.com. In addition, two NBC News/Wall Street Journal surveys about immigration will be released today.
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First on TVNewser: Melissa Lee (left) is cutting back her anchoring duties at CNBC. Lee is moving off the 9amET show “Squawk on the Street” which he has co-anchored since Erin Burnett‘s departure almost two years ago.

“Melissa is an integral part of the network and wanted to focus on ‘Fast Money’ the 5PM show she has hosted since 2009 as well as work on other projects including her upcoming documentary on the industrial Internet,” a CNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser.

TVNewser hears Kelly Evans who joined CNBC from the Wall Street Journal last year and who currently anchors “Worldwide Exchange” from London, will be returning to CNBC HQ in the coming weeks and could land at “Squawk” alongside Carl Quintanilla, David Faber, Simon Hobbs and Jim Cramer. But no definitive plans are in place, insiders say.

The NBC News Group, including NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, held an upfront presentation today at the New York Public library in midtown Manhattan. The Celeste Bartos Forum in the Library was lit up in shades of purple and blue, as media buyers and advertisers mingled with NBC News executives and talent.

Newly-minted MSNBC 8 PM host Chris Hayes was there, as was Matt Lauer, the co-anchor of “Today” who has been at the center of a number of news stories of late. He seemed to take the stories in stride, joking with Savannah Guthrie onstage:

“I would like to tackle what might be a teeny white elephant in the room,” Lauer said to laughter from the crowd. “We all love covering the news,  we hate being the news, and so I would like to say on that subject–from the bottom of my heart–that I promise to spend all of my time and energy over the next several months trying to keep Savannah out of the headlines. ”

We want to go back to the most-watched morning program and the least talked about morning program,” he added.

Lauer sat next to NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke during the lunch, and “Today” was the final NBC News property pitched during the presentation, emphasizing how important the show is to the network.

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