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Maria Bartiromo Biography
Maria Bartiromo is an Italian-American Conservative Journalist, Financial Reporter, and Author best known for spending over 3 decades across major news networks, most notably CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Media. She recently spent a little over 12 years with the FOX News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Channel. On September 3, 2026, FOX announced that they were parting ways with her effective immediately.
Maria Bartiromo Height
Bartiromo stands at a rough height of 5 feet 6 inches.
Maria Bartiromo Age
Bartiromo is 59 years old. She was born on September 11, 1967, in New York City, United States. Bartiromo annually celebrates her birthday on September 11th.
Personal Life
Maria Bartiromo Relatives and Family
Bartiromo was born to Josephine and Vincent Bartiromo. They raised her in the Dyker Heights area of Brooklyn in New York City. Vincent owned the Rex Manor restaurant in Brooklyn, where Josephine worked as the hostess. Josephine was also a clerk at an off-track betting parlor.
Both her parents, Josephine and Vincent, are both Italian-American. Josephine’s family hails from Agrigento, Sicily. Carmine Bartiromo, her grandfather, migrated to the United States from Nocera, Campania, in 1933, and settled in New York. Carmine served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Maria Bartiromo Spouse and Children
Bartiromo tied the knot with Jonathan Steinberg in 1999 at his home and was officiated by a rabbi. The pair met in 1990 after she graduated from college. The pair owns a beach house in the hamlet of Westhampton, New York.
Bartiromo owns a Manhattan townhouse on the Upper East Side and a home in the Hamptons (Westhampton). Jonathan is the son of billionaire financier Saul Steinberg and the CEO of WisdomTree. His individual stock holdings are valued at over $230 million.
Maria Bartiromo Education
Bartiromo received her diploma from Fontbonne Hall Academy, an all-girls private Catholic school in Bay Ridge, before enrolling at LIU Post(formerly the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University). She later transferred to New York University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Economics in 1989.
While in college, Bartiromo served at the same betting parlor her mother worked. She also served as an intern on Barry Farber’s show on WMCA 570. Following that internship, she interned at CNN.
During her time in high school, Bartiromo worked at the coat check at her father’s restaurant and as a stock clerk at a wedding dress shop. She was later dismissed from her job at the wedding dress shop for trying on newly arrived dresses before putting them away.
Professional Life
Maria Bartiromo Career
Bartiromo is best known for spending over 3 decades across major news networks, most notably CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Media. She recently spent a little over 12 years with the FOX News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Channel. On September 3, 2026, FOX announced that they were parting ways with her effective immediately.
Bartiromo has provided coverage for business and the economy for over 15 years. She played a critical role in the launch of the business cable network, CNBC, where she spent 2 decades as the network’s face. While at CNBC, she anchored The Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and helped debut the morning program, Squawk Box. She also anchored and was the managing editor of On the Money with Maria Bartiromo, a nationally syndicated program previously dubbed The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.
Bartiromo made history in 1995 as the first journalist to file live reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange every day. She joined CNBC in 1993 after spending five years at CNN. During her stint at CNN, she worked as a producer, writer, and assignment editor with CNN Business News. She also wrote and produced some of CNN’s top business programs.
Bartiromo worked as an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business from 2010 to 2013. She also gave the commencement speech at the NYU Stern School of Business in 2012.
Awards
Throughout her career, Bartiromo has earned many prestigious awards, including the 1997 Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award, a Lincoln Statue Award presented by the Union League of Philadelphia in 2004, two Emmys, and a Gracie Award. She received a Gracie Award for Greenspan: Power, Money & the American Dream, which aired globally on CNBC.
Bartiromo received her first Emmy in 2008 for covering the 2007-2008 financial collapse in her Bailout Talks Collapse, which aired on NBC Nightly News. The following year, she received another Emmy for her documentary, Inside the Mind of Google, which aired globally on CNBC. That same year, the Financial Times mentioned her as one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.”
Bartiromo was the first female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2011. In 2016, she was inducted into the Library of American Broadcasting’s Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts.
Books, other publications, and Community Work
Besides her work on TV, Bartiromo has authored several books, including The Weekend That Changed Wall Street and The 10 Laws of Enduring Success, which were both released in 2010. She wrote weekly columns for Business Week and Milano Finanza magazines.
Bartiromo has also written monthly columns for USA Today, Individual Investor, Ticker, and Reader’s Digest magazines. She has been published in Newsweek, the Financial Times, Registered Rep, Town and Country, and the New York Post.
Bartiromo serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. She also sits on the Board of Trustees of New York University and the Board of Directors of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).
Maria Bartiromo FOX News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Channel
Bartiromo recently spent a little over 12 years with the FOX News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Channel. On September 3, 2026, FOX announced that they were parting ways with her effective immediately. She hosted Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on the Fox Business channel, and Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News channel until her dismissal in 2026.
Bartiromo joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as Global Markets Editor in January 2014. In April 2017, she climbed the ranks to anchor Wall Street Week, FBN’s weekly primetime investing program.
Bartiromo and FBN’s Neil Cavuto worked as moderators for the network’s inaugural Republican presidential primary debate in November 2015. According to Nielsen data, the debate made history as the highest-rated program in network history with 13.5 million total viewers and 3.7 million in the key 25-54 demo. January 2016 saw both her and Cavuto reprising their roles with 11 million total viewers and 3 million in the key 25-54 demo. Nielsen Media Research rated it the second highest-rated program in network history.
Maria Bartiromo Net Worth
Bartiromo has garnered a net worth ranging from $50 million during her successful career as a conservative journalist, author, financial reporter, and news anchor.
Maria Bartiromo Salary
Bartiromo receives an approximate annual salary of $10 million during her tenure at Fox News and Fox Business.
What Happened to Maria Bartiromo?
Bartiromo recently worked for FOX News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Channel until her dismissal on September 3, 2026. Fox News issued a standard public statement thanking her for her work and wishing her the best. According to some reports, she was dismissed because of an internal breach of protocol. On October 29, 2026, she announced she would headline and spearhead conversations at the two-day America Business Forum at the Kaseya Center in Miami on December 16 and December 17, 2026.
Maria Bartiromo TV Shows
Over the years, Bartiromo has appeared in multiple TV shows, including
- NBC Universal’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 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 The Caroline Rhea Show
- CNBC’s McEnroe
- Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report,
- Live with Regis and Kelly
Maria Bartiromo Social Media
Bartiromo has active social media platforms, i.e., Facebook, X(previously Twitter), and Instagram. She has a following of over 212K on Facebook, over 465K on Instagram, and over 1.5M on X.
