Caleb Silver is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of

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, a

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brand focused on investing and financial education. He previously worked as the Director of Business News at

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, the

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and was a

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on '' The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer''.

Biography

Caleb Silver was born in

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and raised in

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. He attended

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as an undergraduate and received his master's degree from New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Silver began his career producing documentaries and wildlife films in South America and the American southwest. His career in business news began at

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in 1997, where he worked, as a senior television producer. While at Bloomberg, Silver was nominated for a 2003

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for his work on Showdown on Secrecy, a series that explored conflicts of interest in the

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industry. After seven years at Bloomberg, Silver joined

in 2004 as an assignment manager in the New York bureau. He went on to become a senior producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. In 2008, Silver joined CNNMoney.com, where he was named executive producer and led the site's online video production. For their work on CNNMoney, Silver and his team were nominated for an

for New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting in 2008. The team also received an Eppy Award in 2012. In 2012, he returned to CNN as the director of US business news, where he oversaw all of CNN's US business coverage. Silver left CNN in 2014 to form Frog Pond Productions, a digital production and consulting company. He joined Investopedia in January 2016 as the vice president of content, overseeing the site's editorial and video efforts. He regularly appears as a financial expert on a variety of broadcast and radio programs, including

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, ABC radio and

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. Silver was also the treasurer of the executive board of the

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(SABEW), elected in 2016. He was elected president of SABEW in 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silver, Caleb Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American business and financial journalists American television news producers CNN people Colgate University alumni American online journalists American online publication editors Journalists from New York City New York University alumni Bloomberg L.P. people