13 years to the day after joining CNBC, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is taking on a new role with the NBCU business channel: Chief International Correspondent.

Caruso-Cabrera joined CNBC from WTSP-TV in Tampa/St. Pete where she was a general assignement reporter. Over the past 13 years she has anchored shows — most recently as co-co-anchor on “Power Lunch” — and reported from Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Last month she was in Athens reporting on the economic situation there. And last week, when she returned from Greece, Andrew Ross Sorkin hinted at her new role: “I’m joined by the one and only Michelle Caruso-Cabrera who will be talking a lot about what is going on in Europe.”

When not covering her main beat, Caruso-Cabrera will be anchoring and reporting across CNBC’s Business Day programming.

Not only is this a new role for Caruso-Cabrera, it’s a new job title at CNBC. In a memo to staff obtained by TVNewser, Nik Deogun, SVP and EIC of Business News says, the job “requires guts and discretion, a sense for storytelling and, at times, a sense of humor. Michelle has all those qualities, and more.”

Deogun’s note after the jump…

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PRNewser was at the NYSE this morning as Business Wire celebrated its 50th birthday. Business Wire is owned by Berkshire Hathway, which is run by Warren Buffett, which means the business media were down on the floor, clamoring for an interview with the oracle of Omaha, who also rang the opening bell. Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted CNBC’s interview. Liz Claman interviewed Buffet for FBN. (Interestingly, this Reuters story on FoxBusiness.com, cites the CNBC interview). CNN’s Alison Kosik interviewed Buffett live in the 11amET hour and Betty Liu stepped up to Buffett for Bloomberg.

First on TVNewser: CNBC has hired New York Times scribe and DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin to be the new co-anchor of the signature morning program “Squawk Box,” TVNewser has learned.

Sorkin, who has been a contributor on CNBC, will join Becky Quick and Joe Kernen on the show Monday. This past Monday, Carl Quintanilla moved off the three-hour “Squawk Box” to co-anchor the 9amET show “Squawk on the Street.”

> More: CNBC SVP Nik Deogun writes that Sorkin will continue to write his column for The New York Times. “Andrew has long been an extended member of both the CNBC and Squawk families, and we’re pleased he will now be a part of our morning team.”

Full memo after the jump…

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Bill Moyers and his PBS program “Bill Moyers Journal” hit the airwaves for their final broadcast this Friday after almost 40 years after Moyers launched the initial “Journal.”

New York’s THIRTEEN has posted messages from a number of big names as a tribute to Moyers in his final week. Among the well-wishers are Stephen Colbert, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tavis Smiley, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jon Meacham, Alison Stewart, and PBS President Paula Kerger.

HDNet’s Dan Rather writes: “He and [his wife] Judith formed a team that became a national treasure. Take a long, thoughtful look. We may not see the likes of it again anytime soon.”

TVNewser has learned Donny Deutsch, who’d been filling in on the 3pmET hour this week on MSNBC, won’t be anchoring for the rest of the week after a segment yesterday seemed to criticize his colleague Keith Olbermann.

This week, Deutsch has been calling his show “American the Angry.” Yesterday, he played a clip of various radio and TV talkers in all their anger — including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

Adding insult to insult, Deutsch’s guest, radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, then called Olbermann and Ed Schultz, “the biggest hate mongers on television.”

Deutsch responded, “I’m not taking the side of either one.”

TVNewser has learned MSNBC president Phil Griffin talked with Deutsch and the show’s producer and expressed his disappointment with the segment (clip after the jump).

An MSNBC spokesperson tells us Deutsch was going to be off the rest of this week due to a personal issue.

> More: Insiders tell us Deutsch was planning on being on the air as of this morning. Guests, including Andrew Ross Sorkin, Pat Buchanan and the CEO of Spirit Airlines, had been booked. We also hear the EP of the show was sent home this morning. And bookings were already being worked on for tomorrow.

> More, More: Olbermann responds about his involvement: “What I know of what happened is this: Phil Griffin phoned me yesterday enraged at what was on that show and I didn’t disagree with him.” Olbermann himself will be off his show for the next two days. “Colonoscopy, nothing wrong, just a new fact of life after my late Dad’s issues,” he tells TVNewser.

> More, More, More: Without confirming his removal from the network, Deutsch tells NYT‘s Brian Stelter: “For whatever reason they decided they didn’t want to go with it the rest of the week. I was disappointed because I think I’m on to something really special here that needs to be done.”

> Earlier: MSNBC Boss to Staff: “We Do Not Publicly Criticize Our Colleagues”

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Barbara Walters was among the guests the other night at New York’s Kouros Gallery for Mika Brzezinski‘s new book “All Things At Once.”

Brzezinski’s book is dedicated to her mother, the sculptor Emilie Brzezinski.

The event was co-hosted by Miles Nadal, Chairman of MDC Partners and The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown. Other newsers in attendance: Mika’s morning partner, Joe Scarborough. Their boss, MSNBC president Phil Griffin, NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker, CNN’s Alina Cho, Gayle King, Tom Brokaw and The New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin.

‘Tis the season for lists — when the ins and outs, bests and worsts are compiled for all to click. This week The New York Observer has its list of “Insurgents of 2010,” described as “the punks who will make this city hum again.”

They profile 31-year-old Chris Balfe who runs the Glenn Beck empire:

Chris Balfe was 18 years old when he first approached his favorite radio DJ and offered to build him a Web site. This was 1997, years before Glenn Beck would become one of the country’s most influential conservative pundits. At the time, he was a top-40 DJ in New Haven. From the get-go, the two clicked. A few years later, Mr. Balfe was working for Accenture (having dropped out of the University of Connecticut to start a business) when he got a call. Quit your job, said Mr. Beck, and together we’ll build an empire. And so they did.

In 2009, Mercury Radio Arts, Mr. Beck’s Manhattan-based production company, brought in some $23 million in revenue; it includes a top-ranked cable TV show, America’s third-most-popular radio program, a string of best-selling books, a comedy tour and a booming Web site. Mr. Balfe oversees it all.

Others on the list of 53 include Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi (son of NBC’s Mike), The New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bloomberg Business Week editor Josh Tyrangiel and Jimmy Fallon.

Taking a page from his Sunday show, “Good Morning America” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos moderated a roundtable in the first 15 minutes of this morning’s show. The topic: the economy. The guests, “Economic power houses,” as Stephanopoulos called them, Liz Ann Sonders, SVP at Charles Schwab and New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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 Andy Lack and VF editor Graydon Carter addressed the crowd beforehand.

The panel brought together several noteworthy financial journalists to discuss their perspectives of the events of the last year.

Bloomberg TV’s Margaret Brennan facilitated the audience Q&A, but first had an interesting question of her own: what role did financial cable news play in all this?

NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin said he watched “countless hours of television to see what people were talking about at the time,” while doing research for his book “Too Big to Fail.” He said he believes cable news did have a big impact: “It was the TV and the actual personalization of it — the actual watching another human being say it — that I think actually changed the resonance for people. I will say it did push the panic…because it was human.”

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Those looking for potential fireworks when MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is a guest Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher may be disappointed. TVNewser has learned Olbermann’s segment will be the second interview, and he will not appear on the panel which this week is made up of Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, actress Kerry Washington and NYTimes reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Meanwhile Olbermann will be a guest on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno tomorrow night (one night before the first ever late show appearance by a sitting President).