Fox News Parts Ways With Maria Bartiromo After More Than 12 Years

Maria Bartiromo built a career on being first: first woman to report live from the New York Stock Exchange floor, first CNBC anchor to cross to Fox Business, and for more than a decade the most visible face of Fox's financial programming. That run ended Thursday, when Fox News Media said Bartiromo was out at both Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel, effective immediately. "Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media," the company said in a statement.

"We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 1/2 years and wish her all the best on her next chapter." The announcement was sudden and came without a specific reason from the network. Her biography and show pages had already been removed from Fox's websites by Thursday, according to NBC News.

Fox did not confirm that account. Mornings With Maria will become Mornings With Fox Business starting Friday with rotating anchors. Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street will shift to FBN's Wall Street, hosted this week by Cheryl Casone and by rotating anchors afterward.

Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News Channel will be hosted by Jason Chaffetz on Sunday, with a permanent host to be named later. Bartiromo joined Fox from CNBC in 2014 after a 20-year run there, where she anchored Closing Bell and On the Money With Maria Bartiromo. At Fox she became one of President Trump's most reliable interviewers and a vocal defender of his administration.

That closeness carried legal consequences: her programs were cited in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit that Fox settled for $787.5 million in 2023, and she remains a defendant in the ongoing Smartmatic suit, which seeks $2.7 billion. Until Thursday, Bartiromo was the only individual defendant in the Smartmatic case still working at the network, according to NPR. Fox's legal team appeared in court Thursday morning for a hearing in that case, which is scheduled for trial next year.

Vice President JD Vance, asked whether Bartiromo might become White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt's departure, said he didn't know and added, "I don't think so." He called Bartiromo "a very, very dear friend" and said he wished her all the best. Bartiromo has not commented publicly on her exit, and an agent did not immediately respond to E! News.