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Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network
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− Fresh Air Wild Card with Rachel Martin It's Been a Minute Embedded Get NPR+ More Podcasts & Shows Search Newsletters NPR Shop Get NPR+ Tiny Desk New Music Friday All Songs Considered Music Features Live Sessions About NPR Diversity Support Careers Press Ethics Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network Fox News suddently announced it had cut ties with anchor Maria Bartiromo after more than a dozen years.
+ Fresh Air Wild Card with Rachel Martin It's Been a Minute Embedded Get NPR+ More Podcasts & Shows Search Newsletters NPR Shop Get NPR+ Tiny Desk New Music Friday All Songs Considered Music Features Live Sessions About NPR Diversity Support Careers Press Ethics Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network Fox News abruptly announced it had cut ties with anchor Maria Bartiromo after more than a dozen years.
− Media Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network September 3, 20262:05 PM ET David Folkenflik
Fox News has parted ways with long-time anchor Maria Bartiromo.
+ Media Fox News abruptly parts ways with scandal-tarred star Maria Bartiromo Updated September 3, 20265:34 PM ET Originally published September 3, 20262:05 PM ET David Folkenflik
Fox News has parted ways with long-time anchor Maria Bartiromo.
− Longtime Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is out at the network.
+ Fox News abruptly announced Thursday that it is parting ways with longtime host Maria Bartiromo after more than a dozen years.
− "We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 1/2 years and wish her all the best on her next chapter," a spokesperson said in a brief statement.
+ Bartiromo initially brought credibility and flair to Fox Business Network as a financial markets journalist when she arrived in 2014. She became a highly paid mainstay, hosting more than 16 hours a week of programs on the business network and its corporate sibling, Fox News.
− Media The 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News' election-fraud claims Bartiromo joined the network in 2014 after becoming a star at CNBC.
+ She later provided an insider's line to President Trump, fueling ratings but ultimately helping to enmesh Fox News in a spectacular scandal after promoting his lies about the 2020 race.
"We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 1/2 years and wish her all the best on her next chapter," the network said in a brief statement.
The release contained no remarks from Bartiromo herself.
− At Fox Business and the Fox News Channel, she hosted "Mornings with Maria" and other shows bearing her name.
+ She could not be immediately reached for comment.
− The network is rebranding those shows and will have a rotating cast of anchors host them.
+ She made no mention of departing the network in her final appearance earlier Thursday morning.
− Bartiromo, like many other Fox News hosts, has been a staunch supporter of President Trump.
+ Fox presented Bartiromo as a news anchor, and not as one of Fox's increasingly opinionated hosts.
− Following his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Bartiromo helped spread unfounded theories of conspiracy fraud.
+ But that changed over time.
− Her on-air comments — and those of guests she invited on her show — featured prominently in a defamation case against Fox brought by the voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems.
+ Her star rose as she tightly and publicly embraced Trump.
+ Yet her decision to spread unfounded theories of conspiracy fraud helped to land Fox in court.
Her shows featured prominently in a defamation case against Fox brought by the voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems.
− Bartiromo also features heavily in a second multibillion dollar defamation suit filed by a voting software company against Fox News over its statements in the 2020 vote.
+ Media The 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News' election-fraud claims Bartiromo also features heavily in a second multibillion dollar defamation suit.
− Until Thursday, Bartiromo was the only individual defendant still working at the network.
+ That one was filed by Smartmatic, another voting software company, also against Fox News over statements it broadcasted about the 2020 vote. That case is ongoing.
− This is a developing story and will be updated.
+ Until Thursday, Bartiromo was the only individual defendant in the Smartmatic case still working at the network.
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+ Fox's legal team appeared in court Thursday morning in a hearing on the case, which is scheduled for trial next year.
Media Fox News faces critical test in 2nd case over false 2020 election claims The court cases have yielded mortifying revelations.
+ In one November 2020 program in which Bartiromo and a guest alleged electoral fraud, Bartiromo relied on a memo written by a woman who said the wind talks to her and who admitted her own claims were "pretty wackadoodle."
Her former colleague, the late Lou Dobbs, was fired a day after Smartmatic filed suit in early 2021. Former Fox host Tucker Carlson was ousted in 2023 just after the Dominion settlement had been struck and days after a former producer on his primetime show, Abby Grossberg, filed suit against him over workplace issues. Former Fox host Jeanine Pirro, a fellow defendant in both cases, was named last year by Trump as the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.
Bartiromo's departure from Fox was immediate and near absolute.
Her bio page now reads: "Server error. Person not found."
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