Steve Liesman was born on May 21,1963 and is an American journalist, senior economics reporter for the cable financial television channel CNBC.
14 Facts About Steve Liesman
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Steve Liesman is known for appearing on the CNBC programs Squawk Box and other business related topics on CNBC and NBC and using a paper "easel" while explaining the state of the United States economy.
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Steve Liesman shared the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1999, recognizing Wall Street Journal coverage of the Russian financial crisis.
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Steve Liesman wrote the first story in the series, "Missteps by Moscow, New Asian Turmoil Set Off Russian Crisis", and contributed to at least one other; the prize was presented to Andrew Higgins and Steve Liesman.
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Steve Liesman was born in Bronxville, New York, the son of Bernice "Bunny" and Marvin Steve Liesman.
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From August 1987 to June 1992, Steve Liesman was a business reporter first at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and later at the St Petersburg Times.
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Steve Liesman moved to Moscow, Russia in August 1992 as founding business editor of The Moscow Times, the first English-language daily newspaper in Russia.
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Steve Liesman created the Moscow Times Index, the first stock index in Russia.
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Steve Liesman joined The Wall Street Journal in the Moscow bureau in 1994, and was named Moscow bureau chief in August 1996.
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Steve Liesman transferred to the New York bureau in May 1998 when he began covering the international oil and gas industry.
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Steve Liesman was named WSJ's senior economics reporter in June 2000.
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Steve Liesman became a senior economics reporter at the WSJ, covering domestic and global economies, as well as corporate earnings and the Enron accounting scandal, before joining CNBC in April 2002.
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Steve Liesman was a leader of the WSJ's team of reporters awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in the international reporting category for in-depth analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis.
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Steve Liesman received the first runner-up award in the 1998 SAIA - Novartis Prize for International Reporting for his four-part series, "Markets Under Siege".