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David Faber
Faber at the Financial Times Spring Party in 2012
Born (1964-03-10) March 10, 1964 (age 60)
Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
OccupationBusiness journalist
Notable creditSquawk on the Street
SpouseJenny Harris
Websitewww.cnbc.com/id/15838155

David H. Faber (born March 10, 1964) is an American financial journalist and market news analyst for the television cable network CNBC. He is currently one of the co-hosts of CNBC's morning show Squawk on the Street.

Career

Faber joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor. He has been dubbed "The Brain" by CNBC co-workers, and has hosted several documentaries on corporations, such as Wal-Mart and eBay. The Age of Walmart earned Faber a 2005 Peabody Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism.[1] In 2010, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for Television Enterprise business journalism for "House of Cards."[2]

In addition to Squawk on the Street, Faber hosts the network's monthly program, Business Nation, which debuted on January 24, 2007.

Faber is the author of three books; The Faber Report (2002), And Then the Roof Caved In (2009), and House of Cards: The Origins of the Collapse (2010).[1]

Personal life

In 2000, Faber married Jenny Harris,[3] who is a business journalist / television producer, daughter of lawyer Jayne Harris (Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood) and As the World Turns actress Marie Masters, and fraternal twin sister of musician Jesse Harris.[4] Faber is a 1985 cum laude graduate of Tufts University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.[1][5]

Faber is Jewish and was raised in Queens, New York.[6]

Host shows

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "CNBC TV Profiles: David Faber CNBC Anchor and Reporter". CNBC.com.
  2. ^ "More Loeb winners: Fortune and Detroit News". Taklking Biz News. June 29, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  3. ^ "WEDDINGS; David Faber and Jenny Harris". The New York Times. January 16, 2000.
  4. ^ "Marie Masters". TV.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013.
  5. ^ "The Thrill of the Chase". E-News. Tufts University. June 11, 2007. Archived from the original on July 17, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  6. ^ David Faber [@davidfaber] (January 25, 2013). "As a Jewish boy from Queens, like Carl Icahn, I want to state for the record that I never cried about being beaten up in school" (Tweet). Retrieved January 5, 2021 – via Twitter.
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