FBN Names MacDonald Stocks Editor

The launch of Fox Business Network is only days away and Fox is unveiling additional on-air talent. We are dying to get a peek at the programming as well, although Roger Ailes has stated he will likely tinker with things over the first year and he tries to find the secret sauce between the various personalities and programming.

It is noteworthy that they named Forbes senior editor Elizabeth MacDonald stocks editor. Joe Kernen held this role at CNBC for some time, but the role seemed to slip into obscurity until they brought in a reporter from Bloomberg to cover the important beat. Hopefully Elizabeth will break-in with stories during the trading day, something I think CNBC has been a bit remiss in doing. Macdonald has held a slot on Forbes on Fox for years now, and would seem to provide a sober, steady hand to the ship. She appears to have lost weight recently or gone through some sort of makeover and has certainly her game face on.

FOX Business Network (FBN) has named Tracy Byrnes, Robert Gray and Ashley Webster as reporters, and named Elizabeth MacDonald as stocks editor, announced Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President, FOX News.

Tracy Byrnes, who will serve as a reporter, has been a recurring guest on Fox News Channel (FNC), appearing on Cavuto on Business, Cashin’ In, Bulls and Bears, and Your World with Neil Cavuto. She previously served as a morning business correspondent for FOX affiliates in New York, Chicago and Washington D.C., among other cities. Earlier, Byrnes was a senior writer for TheStreet.com and a freelance reporter for The New York Post.

Robert Gray, who will serve as a reporter based at the New York Stock Exchange, joins FBN from Bloomberg Television where he has held various roles as a reporter at the NYSE, weekend anchor and assistant producer since 1999.  Before joining Bloomberg, Gray was a producer and writer for nationally syndicated radio programs and an announcer for C-SPAN.

Elizabeth MacDonald, who will serve as a stocks editor, joins FBN from her role as senior editor at Forbes magazine.  Before joining Forbes, MacDonald was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and prior to that, she was a financial editor for Worth magazine.

Ashley Webster, who will serve as a London-based reporter, was previously the anchor of the nightly newscast on WZTV-TV (FOX) in Nashville, TN. Prior to that he anchored newscasts for WGBA-TV (NBC) in Green Bay, WI and KWST-TV (CBS) in Yuma, AZ.  Webster has also spent six years working in the banking sector in London.
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