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MYRON KANDEL
Founding Financial Editor Of CNN
Myron Kandel is one of the nation's best-known financial journalists, having been the Founding Financial Editor of CNN and the Financial Editor of three major newspapers before that. He was part of CNN’s original launch team in 1980 and has been recognized as a pioneer in the development of financial news on television. In 2000. he was named one of the ten most influential business journalists of the 20th century.
He is a commentator on the "Nightly Business Report" program on the Public Broadcasting System, and speaks frequently on media, business and economic issues in this country and abroad.
Following 25 years as Financial Editor and economic commentator for CNN, he spent three years as founder and President of the New Hampshire-based Initiative for Corporate Responsibility and Investor Protection, which produced a series of high-profile public forums on those issues on college campuses around the state. He also conducted a series of half-hour interviews with Presidential aspirants, which ran on New Hampshire Public Television. One of those interviews, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, received a Telly award for an outstanding local or regional program in the political/commentary category.
Kandel was a financial reporter for The New York Times before being named Business Editor of the Washington Star. He then became a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, covering Germany and the European Common Market. He returned to the U.S. in 1964 to become the Trib’s Financial Editor, holding that post until the paper folded in 1966. He then became Editor and President of the New York Law Journal, the nation's largest daily legal newspaper. From 1976 to 1982, he co-authored a syndicated financial column that appeared in leading newspapers around the country. He was also Financial Editor of the New York Post before leaving to help launch CNN.
He is the author of “How to Cash In on the Coming Stock Market Boom.” The book, published in January 1982, accurately forecast the biggest bull market in Wall Street history, which began that August and continued until 2000.
Among his many honors, Kandel has received a Peabody Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1987 stock market crash and a magazine award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has taught journalism at the City College of New York and Columbia University and has been the president of five journalism groups, including the 3,000-member Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
He has received a number of career achievement awards, including the Loeb Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, given to an individual whose body of work in business, financial and economic news exemplifies journalistic excellence. He was named to the Financial Journalism Hall of Fame by the New York Financial Writers’ Association, only the seventh person so honored in the group’s 78-year history.
Kandel is a graduate of Brooklyn College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has received three honorary doctorate degrees - " from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania; Bethany College in West Virginia, and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.
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