Dennis Kneale

CNBC's Dennis Kneale Should Host His Own Program and Really Tick Off His Critics!

2008-06-13T20:44:00Z

Memo: Roger Ailes, Fox Business News and Mark Hoffman, CNBC

From: Dean Rotbart, founder and executive editor, NewsBios.com

Subject: What Are You Guys Waiting For?

Perhaps the two of you über news craftsmen didn't get the memo, so I'm resending it. Step up and give Dennis Kneale, currently Media and Technology Editor at CNBC, his own show.

Dennis is bright, funny, telegenic (he's gotten better having traveled from the print world) and enthusiastic. He used to be managing editor at savvy Forbes and before that was a top editor at The Wall Street Journal. So he's not only entertaining, he knows business and financial news.

When Dennis joined CNBC in October 2007, Jonathan Wald, CNBC senior vice president for business news, said it himself: "He's one of the best connected journalists in the business."

Although Dennis started out with media and technology as his core beats, he's expanded that role significantly -- and now is a go-to commentator on every variety of business and economic story from early morning to late night. He's often showing up on Kudlow & Company and periodically hosts the show when Larry is off.

Dennis gets it wrong sometimes and he gets it right a whole lot of the time. Is that any different than Jim 'Mad Money' Cramer? What I like so much about Dennis are his reportorial skills and his willingness to bare-knuckle fight with anyone and everyone who disagrees with him. CEOs and other reporters get no slack from Dennis.

When Dennis used to show up regularly on Forbes on Fox, he was impossible not to watch. Just the kind of host television networks covet.

I suspect the question of whether or not to place a bet on Dennis has crossed both your minds. Perhaps you think he needs a little bit more on-camera seasoning. Perhaps. But having watched the best and the worst on both your respected networks, I am convinced that Dennis is already closer to the top than the bottom.

So get with it gentlemen. One of you needs to give Dennis his own show. And I'd say better hurry. Business news is not the only venue where Dennis could thrive. The other news networks, without a doubt, could use a journalist of Dennis' caliber, too.

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CNBC's Dennis Kneale Moderates High-Level Panel of Media & Entertainment Executives

2008-06-12T20:16:00Z

Dennis Kneale, media and technology editor of CNBC, moderated a high-powered roundtable with leading media and entertainment industry executives at this year's Milken Institute Global Conference. The event was held in Beverly Hills, CA.


CNBC's Dennis Kneale (l) and Fox's Peter Chernin	Activision Chairman Robert Kotick

Terry Semel, now Chairman and CEO of Windsor Media	BBC's Mark Thompson

West Wing's Richard Schiff was in the Kneale audience	All photos: © 2008 NewsBios.com

Kneale's panel included Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer, News Corporation; Robert Kotick, chairman and CEO, Activision Inc.; Terry Semel, former Chairman and CEO, Yahoo! Inc.; and Mark Thompson, director-general, British Broadcasting Company.

Kneale's style mixes humor and persistence. He is willing to return repeatedly to the same executive with the same question if he feels the executive didn't answer fully or straightforwardly. All of the executives appears to be very familiar with Kneale and clearly on a first-name, casual basis with the journalist.

A full audio of the panel, Media and Entertainment: Consequences of the Digital Revolution, can be heard on the Milken Institute web site.

Kneale, who joined CNBC in October 2007, has been a regular moderator at the Milken Institute annual conference for a number of years. His sessions are always well-attended and lively.

Dennis Kneale Leads CNBC and MSNBC Coverage of World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

2008-01-22T20:08:00Z

Dennis Kneale, Maria Bartiromo, and Beck Quick will be leading the coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting for CNBC and MSNBC programming in the US. The meeting takes place in Davos from January 23 - 27. Coverage will include live interviews and analysis on-air, online and with special programming. Live broadcast coverage will be supported with special on-line reports on davos08.cnbc.com - a dedicated section on CNBC.com where viewers can watch video interviews, read additional news stories from reporters on the ground.

Forbes Managing Editor Dennis Kneale Joins CNBC as Media and Technology Editor

2007-11-25T01:15:00Z

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., October 11, 2007 ---CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced that Dennis Kneale is joining the network as Media and Technology Editor. He will appear on all CNBC Business Day programming (5 AM-7 PM ET) beginning Monday, Oct. 15th.

"Dennis has 25 years of experience in media and technology. He's one of the best-connected journalists in the business," said Jonathan Wald, CNBC Senior Vice President Business News. "The convergence of media and technology is becoming one of the major business stories, and Dennis is the perfect person to lead our coverage. His addition to the business news team will have an immediate impact."

Kneale joins CNBC from Forbes magazine, where he served as Managing Editor overseeing such business stories as the Internet boom, bust and rebuild; corporate scandals and investor fallout; the backlash against the drug industry amid drug recalls and soaring costs; the rise of Google, the capitalist revolution that is igniting China's economy-and the travails of Martha Stewart, Dennis Kozlowski, Bernie Ebbers and more.

In conceiving, directing and editing many of the cover stories in Forbes, Kneale has overseen such high-impact pieces as the recent "Hiding Behind the Net," on how anonymity on the Internet is out of control; "The Sleaziest Show on Earth," on the rampant tactics of some hedge funds; "Attack of the Blogs," on how they can wreck brands and destroy lives; "The YouTube Revolution," which ran a week before Google bid $1.65 billion to acquire the company, and a business profile of rapper Fifty Cent for the Forbes Celebrity 100 issue last year.

Kneale joined Forbes in 1998 to expand its coverage of technology, media and health. He has covered Barry Diller, the movie mogul turned Internet maven, Bob Iger, the chief executive of Walt Disney Co., and other CEOs for 20 years. More recently he secured cover profiles on Renault S.A. and Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn, on the rise of MTV in Africa as an example of capitalism helping a troubled continent, and on an India-born Accenture executive who returned home after a career in the U.S. to oversee 35,000 Accenture employees in his homeland.

Kneale also has made dozens of television appearances on CNBC, Fox News Channel, other major broadcast networks and morning talk shows, including NBC's "Today" show. Since 2001 he has been a regular on "Forbes on Fox" on Saturday mornings. Kneale is also a frequent contributor to Forbes.com.

Prior to Forbes, Kneale spent 16 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior editor, directing much of the coverage of new AIDS treatments, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. He started at The Wall Street Journal in 1982 and covered advertising, technology and media & entertainment before becoming an editor in the Marketing & Media section in 1990.

Kneale began his career in journalism at the News/Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A journalism graduate from the University of Florida, Kneale has been honored as a distinguished alumni and a member of the Hall of Fame of the student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator.

Dennis Kneale – A NewsBios “Top 100” Journalist

2007-10-29T18:10:00Z

Dennis Kneale, medial and technology editor of CNBC is one of the 100 most influential business journalists in the United States, according to NewsBios.

The NewsBios editorial team ranked Mr. Kneale from its database of more than 7,000-plus in-depth journalism profiles available from the NewsBios library. The library is updated weekly and reflects those journalists who are of greatest interest to corporate America, PR agencies and other news organizations and journalists.

In addition to Mr. Kneale's dossier, NewsBios has current profiles on many of his colleagues at CNBC, as well as competitors as news organizations such as Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Investors Business Daily.

To order his NewsBio, phone 1-866-NEWS-070 ext. 2. The profile is available for $69.95.

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CNBC's Dennis Kneale– Good, Bad & Ugly

2007-10-29T18:07:00Z

What has been your experience in interacting with CNBC's Dennis Kneale? Do you work with him? Have you been the subject of his reporting?

What would you like to say to others who are thinking about cooperating with Mr. Kneale on a story? Do you believe he is fair and professional in his dealings? Does he demonstrate a mastery of his subject matter.

We welcome your comments here.