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Margaret Brennan Born Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. Ethnicity Irish American Notable credit(s) News Presenter, Correspondent, Reporter, Bloomberg Television Margaret Brennan is an anchor and reporter for Bloomberg television. ‘InBusiness with Margaret Brennan’ airs from 10 am-noon ET. The daily program focuses on the global markets and the interconnection of geopolitical, economic and consumer trends. It is simulcast on Bloomberg radio. Since joining BTV in 2009, Brennan's reporting has brought her around the world for interviews with leading CEOs, investors and heads of state. She was the only Western journalist anchoring from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 30 years in power.
After anger over the collapse of the Irish economy led to the biggest shift of political power in that country's history, she had an exclusive interview with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny during his first trip to the US. HRH Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum of Dubai and Crown Prince Hamdan al Maktoum granted her their first joint interview and discussed the emirate's sovereign debt crisis. Brennan has broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin and Davos, Switzerland. Brennan also filed special reports from London and the Gulf Coast of the US during the BP oil spill.
Previously, Brennan was a General Assignment Reporter for CNBC and a contributor to NBC’s Today Show, Nightly News and MSNBC. Brennan began her business news career at CNBC in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser and later for Ron Insana. She then produced high-profile interviews with President George W. Bush, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and others.
Brennan graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language. She was named an Emmerich-Wright scholar for an outstanding thesis. As a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, Brennan studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association, serves on the Advisory Board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin and the Central Park Conservancy. She is on the junior board of the Waterside School in Stamford, CT.
Irish America magazine named her one of the top Irish Americans and one of the top 100 Irish-Americans in business and in media. In 2003, she was named one of the top journalists under the age of 30 by the NewsBios/TJFR Group.[1]
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Personal life
Brennan was born in Connecticut to parents Ed & Jane Brennan and graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia in 2002. She received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and was named an Emmerich-Wright scholar for an outstanding thesis. Brennan also received a B.A. in Middle East Studies with a minor in Arabic language. As a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, Brennan studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.
Career
Brennan began her business news career in 2002 at CNBC as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser. She wrote, researched and booked guests for the weekly "Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street" program and primetime specials. Brennan later worked as a producer on "Street Signs with Ron Insana" for which she coordinated guest bookings and produced interviews with President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Margaret Brennan was a General Assignment Reporter for CNBC. She has conducted newsmaking interviews with former Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen and others. She broke the story of Circuit City's liquidation in 2009 and regularly covered changing consumer trends for the network.
Of Note
She is a Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association and on the Junior Committee for the Central Park Conservancy. She is also on the North American Advisory board of the Smurfit Business School at the University College of Dublin. Brennan also serves on the Junior Board of the Waterside School in Stamford, CT.
Irish America Magazine named her as one of the top 100 most influential Irish Americans.
During a tease for her 12/22/09 InBusiness show which featured Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) as a guest, Brennan admitted she was an active wikipedian saying, "Betty, I know you've done it; I've done it; everyone has at one time or the other gone on Wikipedia to see what's on there about themselves."
Quotations
On June 24, 2009, Margaret Brennan left CNBC to join Bloomberg Television to anchor the 10 a.m. hour:
"I'm going to be anchoring there, and hopefully expanding my reporting as well...It's a tremendous opportunity to join an already great team. My background and my interest is in international news. I'd love to tap into that. I've been covering the consumer and retail for a few good years now at CNBC....I think across the board, you can't separate the business stories from the international political stories any longer. Covering the global consumer, covering the global markets—all that is going to be a part of the canvas here." --Margaret Brennan,The Observer
References
- ^ "Past NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award Winners". NewsBios, A Division of the TJFR Group, Inc.. 2010-02-12. http://www.newsbios.com/30under30/Past%20Classes.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
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