Comedian Iliza Vie Shlesinger is channeling her very best Maria Bartiromo for Slate V, hosting Up in Your Business, a weekly series that Slate said “aims to do the world of business and business news what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert do to politics and the mainstream media.”
The debut episode (below) examines how fictional character Gordon Gekko of Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps rates against Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as poking fun at Netflix.
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Fortune will stream select sessions from its Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit for the first time ever.
The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit will be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4-6, and confirmed speakers include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Demand Media chief revenue officer Joanne Bradford, former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown, MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley, Fortune senior editor Nina Easton, Fortune assistant managing editor Leigh Gallagher, TIME executive editor Nancy Gibbs, Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel, Blip.tv co-founder Dina Kaplan, Oxygen Media founder Geraldine Laybourne, Facebook vice president for global public policy Marne Levine, Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis, ImpreMedia CEO Monica Lozano, Fortune executive editor Stephanie Mehta, Paley Center for Media president and CEO Patricia Mitchell, Time Inc. chairman Ann Moore, TIME Washington correspondent Jay Newton-Small, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor and Fortune guest columnist Becky Quick, Fortune senior editor Jennifer Reingold, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, Fortune editor at large Pattie Sellers, NBC News chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman, Washington Post national political correspondent Karen Tumulty, Real Simple managing editor Kristin van Ogtrop, and Fox News Channel On the Record with Greta Van Susteren host Greta Van Susteren.
iVillage and PASS from American Express want to help parents when it’s time to have “the talk” with their teenagers.
No, not that talk: The NBC Universal-owned women’s online destination and the prepaid reloadable card for teens teamed up on multiplatform initiative The Talk, aimed at helping mothers teach their young adults about financial responsibility.
The Talk will include custom editorial and video, social-media components, and promotion on NBC.com.
Video vignettes and a series created by parenting and financial experts will be promoted on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. Parents who are on Facebook can access the iVillage page for tips and advice from other parents and financial experts, as well as the opportunity to download The Talk badge after having “the talk.” And The Talk will be promoted on the Parenthood page on NBC.com, as well as via an online public-service announcement featuring CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.
Last night digital news publication The Fiscal Times celebrated its official launch at The Paley Center for Media in New York City. The main event was a conversation between CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo and Pete Peterson, the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce who now runs the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Peterson’s foundation, which aims to draw awareness to the U.S. debt crisis, is funding the The Fiscal Times, which is branding itself as “The source for All Things Fiscal.”
The event kicked off on a lighthearted note, with Bartiromo introducing Peterson and kissing him on the cheek, the billionaire responding with a deadpan “I have been wanting to do that for a long time,” to laughs and applause from the crowd, before adding “I am glad you didn’t mention that I can’t use a computer.”
Fiscal Times editor-in-chief Jackie Leo told WebNewser that issues like the debt and finance are important to every American, the challenge is making it accessible to ordinary people…
NBC Universal returns as the official broadcast partner of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This year, NBC plans to focus on the “multi-platform content opportunities” for the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games which will be broadcast on the networks of NBC in February. NBC talent including Al Roker and Maria Bartiromo will be on hand, as will Chris Hansen, who may or may not be looking to catch a predator while in Las Vegas. CNBC’s “Closing Bell” and “Wall Street Journal Report” will originate from the NBC production space on the floor of the CES.
B&C’s Alex Weprin has more on who is — and who isn’t — going to be showcasing at next month’s conference. And, like last year, WebNewser will be covering CES from beginning to end. Look for our coverage from Las Vegas beginning Jan. 6.
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