Steve Liesman Biography / Wiki
Steve Liesman is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a senior economics reporter for the cable financial television channel CNBC. He is well-known for utilizing a paper “easel” to explain the status of the United States economy while appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box and other business-related shows on NBC and CNBC. In August 1996, Liesman was appointed chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau after joining in 1994. When he started covering the global oil and gas sector in May 1998, he moved to the New York bureau. In June 2000, he was appointed senior economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He concentrated on the productivity revolution, macroeconomics, and the numerous issues surrounding corporate profits reporting while he was employed at the Wall Street Journal. Before joining CNBC in April 2002, Liesman worked as a senior economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering corporate profits, the Enron accounting disaster, and both local and international economies. (more…)