Sue Herera (
née
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Susan McMahon, born November 15, 1957) is an American journalist and business news television anchor.
Early life and education
Herera was born in Spokane, Washington. She grew up in Brentwood, California, where her father was a shoe wholesaler and her mother was a housewife.
[Vrana, Debora]
"They've Got the Beat"
''LA Times'', May 11, 1999. Retrieved July 28, 2019. In 1980, Herera earned a
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degree in journalism from
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge), is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. With a total enrollment of 36,848 students (as of Fall 2024), it has the ...
(CSUN).
[California State University, Northridge]
"Distinguished Alumni Awards Program: 2003 Honorees"
Retrieved July 31, 2019.
Career
After graduating from CSUN, she was an intern at CBS-owned
KNXT-TV in Los Angeles (now KCBS-TV).
Then, in 1981, she was hired by
Financial News Network (FNN), a cable TV station that had just launched that year, as an associate producer and writer covering the futures markets.
[Reuter, Michelle]
"CNBC's Sue Herera talks about her 28 year experience in the business news world"
''The Sundial'', March 1, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2019.[Nelson, Steve]
Legacy Collection, The Cable Center, September 14, 2004. Retrieved July 31, 2019. Herera credits this role at FNN with teaching her how the markets work.
She soon began anchoring at the station.
She has described cold-calling Michael Eskridge, the head of NBC's new cable channel
CNBC
CNBC is an American List of business news channels, business news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The network broadcasts live business news and analysis programming during the morning, Day ...
, around 1988 and asking him for a job interview.
Herera was among CNBC's founding members when it launched in 1989; it would purchase the above-mentioned FNN in 1991.
Since then, she has anchored and co-anchored CNBC shows ''
Market Wrap'', ''
Business Tonight'', ''The Edge'', ''
The Money Wheel'', ''
Business Center'', and ''Power Lunch''.
In 2015, Herera became the anchor for the ''
Nightly Business Report'' TV show and was joined in 2018 by co-anchor
Bill Griffeth, who had previously worked with her on ''Power Lunch''. The ''Nightly Business Report'' show made its final broadcast in December 2019. From 2019 until February 2021, she read one-minute news recaps at the top and bottom of the hour. She retired from day-to-day broadcasting in February 2021.
Herera featured 14 successful women investment professionals for her book ''Women of the Street: Making It on Wall Street — The World's Toughest Business'', published by Wiley in 1997.
CSUN named Herera a 2003 honoree in the university's Distinguished Alumni Awards Program for her outstanding achievements.
In January 2019, Herera marked 30 years with CNBC.
[Katz, A.J.]
"Sue Herera Celebrates 30 Years at CNBC"
''Adweek'', January 3, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
See also
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New Yorkers in journalism
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References
External links
CNBC profile
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California State University, Northridge alumni
Living people
1957 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women television journalists
CNBC people
Television anchors from Spokane, Washington
Journalists from California
People from Brentwood, Los Angeles
Women business and financial journalists
American business and financial journalists
21st-century American women