Charles Gasparino is an American journalist, blogger, and occasional radio host.
12 Facts About Charlie Gasparino
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Charlie Gasparino reported for Newsweek, where he covered politics, Wall Street, and corporate America.
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Charlie Gasparino won the New York Press Club award for coverage of Wall Street research scandals.
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Charlie Gasparino then moved to cable business network CNBC where he reported extensively on Wall Street.
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In February 2010, Charlie Gasparino left CNBC for the fledgling Fox Business Network.
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At Fox, Charlie Gasparino has broken stories on, among others, the US government's plans to sell its stake in Citigroup and the government's pressure on Bank of America to shrink itself.
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In one dig at his former channel, while CNBC was interviewing John Mack, chairman of Morgan Stanley, who declared on air that "[t]his doesn't feel like the crisis that I went through [in 2008], so I feel a lot better about it," Charlie Gasparino timed his report of Morgan Stanley's laying off 1,200 workers and closing up to 300 branches so that it aired opposite the interview.
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People don't want a droll Charlie Gasparino droning on about Merrill Lynch.
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Charlie Gasparino posts breaking news updates on Twitter and for several years regularly filled in for John Batchelor on Friday nights as the host of "The John Batchelor Show" on WABC-AM in New York City.
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Charlie Gasparino's biographical snippets on websites and his own personal statements have occasionally claimed that Charlie Gasparino is a Pulitzer Prize nominee.
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Charlie Gasparino was criticized for this by investigative reporter Bill Dedman and others as a misleading claim: while Charlie Gasparino was suggested to the Pulitzer Nominating Juries, hundreds of journalists are, and there is no particular esteem in this as anyone can submit anyone else for consideration.
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In 2005, Charlie Gasparino wrote Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors, published by Free Press.