Neil Cavuto
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Neil Cavuto | |
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| Born | September 22, 1958 Westbury, New York, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Vice President of Business News (Fox News Channel), Senior Vice President & Managing Editor of Business News (Fox Business Network) |
| Website | Your World at FOXNews.com |
Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.
Cavuto also tapes a nightly wrap up of business news which airs on local FOX affiliates during the late news and has a syndicated radio business news segment that airs on weekday afternoons. He is the senior vice president and managing editor of business news for the Fox Business Network, and oversees content and business coverage.
Cavuto is the author of the book More Than Money.
Early life
Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended Immaculate High School. He worked as a White House intern during U.S. president Jimmy Carter's administration, graduated from St. Bonaventure University, and earned a master's degree from American University. His father's family is Italian American and his mother's family is Irish American.[1]
Career
Neil Cavuto became the managing editor of business news and television anchor of Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel in July 1996, later becoming a vice president of business news in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. Your World is Fox's main business news program.
Before joining Fox, he hosted Power Lunch on CNBC and contributed to NBC's Today. He worked with the Public Broadcasting Service for 15 years. He was also a New York bureau chief.
He has been awarded numerous times by his peers in the journalism industry, including recognition by the Wall Street Journal as the best interviewer in business news, best business television interviewer four consecutive years, and five nominations for Cable ACE awards.[2] Cavuto was also awarded the 1980 Hellinger Award, the highest award for graduating journalism students from Saint. Bonaventure University. Cavuto has Interviewed many high profile business, political and world leaders.
Cavuto is also the author of More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life's Ultimate Lesson (ISBN 0-06-009643-8) and Your Money or Your Life (ISBN 0-06-082617-7).
Personal life
Cavuto and his wife, Mary Fulling, whom he married on October 15, 1983, have three children, Tara, Bradley and Jeremy. They reside in Mendham, New Jersey.[3]
Cavuto has suffered health problems, saying, "I don't hide that I have had a tough life in many respects. I fought back a near-life-ending cancer, only to end up with multiple sclerosis years later. Doctors have since told me that the odds of contracting both diseases in the same life are something like two million to one! Yet here I am, marching on, continuing to do my job when doctors who've examined my scans and MRIs tell me I shouldn't be walking or talking."[4]
He is of Irish and Italian descent.[5]
References
- ^ Neil Cavuto's Common Sense. Posted 6/24/2009.
- ^ Cavuto on Business, Fox News
- ^ Hyman, Vicki. "Voice of Reason", Inside jersey, November 13, 2008. Accessed November 23, 2008. "Cavuto, who is also Fox Business Network's managing editor, keeps his lead suit packed away in the sprawling Mendham mansion he shares with wife Mary..."
- ^ Why "Your Money or Your Life?", Fox News
- ^ Beware the Short Fuse by Neil Cavuto, FoxNews.com, May 1, 2006
External links
- 1958 births
- Living people
- American finance and investment writers
- American University alumni
- American writers of Italian descent
- American writers of Irish descent
- American Roman Catholics
- People from Morris County, New Jersey
- People from Nassau County, New York
- People with multiple sclerosis
- New York Republicans
- St. Bonaventure University alumni
- Fox Business Network