Maria Bartiromo Biography

Maria Bartiromo is an American Anchor/Author/Host working with FOX Business Channel(FBC) as the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street. She also hosts Sunday Morning Features with Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business Channel. 

Maria Bartiromo Education

Bartiromo attended the Fontbonne Hall Academy at Bay Ridge. At the same time, she worked as a coat check individual at her dad’s restaurant and as a stock clerk at Kleinfeld’s wedding dress store. She also worked in the same betting room where her mother was working. Bartiromo began college in C. W. Post, before going to New York University.

Bartiromo later graduated from NYU with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Economics. She interned at CNN while working at NYU. Maria is a proud member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Economic Club of New York. This is in addition to being on the Board of Directors of The National Italian American Foundation(NIAF).

Maria Bartiromo Career

Bartiromo has been working with FOX Business Channel since January 2014 when she joined the station as Global Markets Editor. She is also the anchor of Mornings with Maria on FBN(6-9 AM/ET) and also co-anchors Sunday Morning Futures, the most-watched Sunday morning program on cable(10 AM/ET) on FOX News Channel(FNC). The month of April 2017 saw her being named as the new anchor for FBN’s Weekly primetime investing program Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street(Fridays at 8 PM/ET).

November of the year 2015 saw her along with FBN’s Neil Cavuto moderate the network’s inaugural Republican presidential primary debate. According to Nielsen data, the debate delivered 13.5 million total viewers and 3.7 million in the key 25-54 demo, making it the highest-rated program in network history.

January of the year 2016 saw both Bartiromo and Cavuto reprise their role as debate moderators delivering a total of about 11 million total viewers with 3 million in the key 25-54 demo. This made it the second highest-rated program in network history according to Nielsen Media Research.

Maria Bartiromo CNBC/CNN/NBC

She has covered business and the economy for more than 25 years and was one of the building blocks of the business cable network CNBC. In her 20-year tenure as the face of CNBC, she launched the network’s morning program, Squawk Box, and anchored The Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo.

She was also the anchor and managing editor of the nationally syndicated On the Money with Maria Bartiromo, formerly The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.  Asides from that, she has also been a pioneer in her industry.

The year 1995 saw her become the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. She joined the CNBC team in the year 1993. This was after spending five years working as a producer, assignment editor, and writer with CNN Business News. There, she wrote and produced some of CNN’s top business programs.

Later on, in the year 2009, the Financial Times named her one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.” She was the first female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2011. The year 2016 saw her being inducted by the Library of American Broadcasting as one of its Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts.

She has also written columns for Business Week and Milano Finanza magazines as well as monthly columns for USA Today, and Individual Investor, Ticker, and Reader’s Digest magazines. Bartiromo has been published in the Financial Times, Town, Newsweek, Country, the New York Post, and the Registered Rep.

Maria Bartiromo Age

Bartiromo is 56 years old. She was born Maria Sara Bartiromo on 11 September 1967in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 11th of September every year.

Maria Bartiromo Height

Bartiromo stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m).

Maria Bartiromo Family

Bartiromo is from the Italian-American families of Vincent Bartiromo and Josephine Bartiromo. Her father operated a Brooklyn restaurant called Rex Manor, while her mother was a hostess for guests who also worked as a clerk in the off-track betting parlor.

Bartiromo’s maternal family moved from Agrigento, Sicily, to the United States in 1898. Her grandfather, Carmine Bartiromo, arrived in New York from Nocera in Naples in 1933 and worked in the United States Army.

Maria Bartiromo Husband and Children

Bartiromo is married to Jonathan Steinberg, and is the Chief Executive Officer of WisdomTree Investments, they married in 1999. She’s the daughter-in-law of billionaire financier Saul Steinberg. The couple has no children and lives in the hamlet of Westhampton, New York.

Maria Bartiromo Net Worth

Bartiromo has an estimated net worth of $50 million which she has earned through being a financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author.

Maria Bartiromo Salary

Bartiromo earns an annual salary of $10 million.

Maria Bartiromo House

Her husband purchased a $6.5 five-bedroom townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The five-bedroom house, east of Third Avenue, has a second-floor balcony overlooking the 39-foot backyard garden, plus a two-bedroom surveillance system with a flat-screen TV. They still have a beach house in the village of Westhampton, New York.

Maria Bartiromo Donald Trump

At the outset, Bartiromo’s ratings at Fox Business were grim. During the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race, she formed an on-air friendship with Donald Trump. During Donald Trump’s presidency, she moved substantially to the right and became a champion of the Trump administration.

Bartiromo agreed with and did not challenge, Trump’s statements, many of which were dismissed as misleading or unsubstantiated. She reported, without proof, that Trump had been overthrown in a “coup” in 2020. She called the unmasking of an American who was the target of a counter-intelligence investigation “the biggest political scandal we’ve ever seen”

Maria Bartiromo was blamed for not questioning Donald Trump’s false accusations of electoral fraud. She was also blamed for showing her confidence in his claims. Attorneys for Smartmatic, a voting machine corporation suspected baselessly of working with rival Dominion Voting Devices to rig the result, sent Fox News a letter urging legal action and seeking retrenchment.

Fox News personalities Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro have both encouraged falsehoods in their shows. One of the three shows ran the same three-minute video clip, refuting the false claims days later, but none of the three hosts individually gave retractions. The Fox News host justified himself by arguing that a substantial portion of the media was taking sides and involved in “election interference.”

Maria Bartiromo Awards

She has received numerous prestigious awards, including two Emmys and a Gracie Award. Her first Emmy was for her 2008 News and Documentary coverage of the 2007-2008 financial collapse and her “Bailout Talks Collapse” coverage was broadcast on NBC Nightly News. She later won a second Emmy for her 2009 documentary, “Inside the Mind of Google,” which aired globally on CNBC. Bartiromo won a Gracie Award for “Greenspan: Power, Money & the American Dream,” also broadcast globally on CNBC.

In her career, she has been able to receive numerous prestigious awards which include two Emmys and a Gracie Award. Her first Emmy was for her 2008 News and Documentary coverage of the 2007-2008 financial collapse. Bartiromo’s “Bailout Talks Collapse” coverage was broadcast on NBC Nightly News.

She, later on, won a second Emmy for her 2009 documentary, “Inside the Mind of Google,” which aired globally on CNBC. She also won a Gracie Award for Greenspan: Power, Moner & the American Dream,” which was still broadcast on CNBC.

Maria Bartiromo Books

Bartiromo is the author of several books, which include:

• 2020; The Cost: Trump, China, and American Revival
• 2011; The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: And How the Fallout Is Still Impacting Our World
• 2010; The 10 Laws of Enduring Success
• 2010; The Weekend that Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account
• 2010; The AMA Handbook of Public Relations
• 2001; Use The News: How To Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy
• Choosing and Using a Broker Maria

The table below answers some of the frequently asked questions about Bartiromo.