Sara Eisen, A Prominent Name in Television Journalism

Sara Aliza Eisen is an American television journalist currently associated with CNBC. She serves as the co-anchor of the channel’s shows’ Squawk on the Street’ and ‘Closing Bell.’ An Ohio native, she was not much excited about the markets and currencies when she was in college.

While studying at New York University, she did an internship with a startup website named ForexTV.com. It is there that she earned her first experience with business news. She later got a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She then did a four-month-long internship with Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong.

After she returned to the US, she started to work at Bloomberg’s office in New York. Eventually, she became a TV anchor. In December 2013, she was appointed by CNBC as a correspondent. She has worked as a co-anchor of ‘Worldwide Exchange’ and ‘Power Lunch’ before landing the job on ‘Closing Bell’ in 2018. Eisen has been co-anchoring ‘Squawk on the Street’ since 2014. One of the most famous business journalists of today, her primary focus has been global consumer news ever since joining CNBC.

Childhood & Early Life

Sara Eisen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, to pediatric dentist Dr. Jane Eisen and dermatologist Dr. Drore Eisen. Different information is available on her birth date. Some online sources declare that she was born on August 7, 1984, while others state that her birth happened in 1985. A few websites even show that it occurred on December 9, 1970, or August 7, 1970. According to a ‘New York Times article on her wedding published on May 29, 2016, those are clearly incorrect; she was 31 years old at the time.

After completing her graduation from high school, Sara Eisen enrolled at the New York University to learn televised reporting and business coverage and received her bachelor’s degree from there. While she was at NYU, she landed an internship with a startup website called ForexTV.com

ForexTV.com

Sara Eisen began her career in business journalism after taking an internship broadcasting at a startup website named ForexTV.com during her undergrad. ForexTv.com was a site dedicated to covering the foreign exchange market and currencies. It was here where she grew a passion for Forex.

Bloomberg TV

After finishing her undergrad, Sara Eisen proceeded with her education studying business journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. While studying at the school, she interned at Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. In this position, she did behind-the-scenes production, writing and editing packages, and general production assistant work while there. She was based in Hong Kong for about four months and got to travel around the region. She also went to the Philippines, where she reported on stories like the 2008 global rice crisis.

After graduation, Sara Eisen moved to New York City to join Bloomberg TV full time as a production assistant in 2008, during the middle of the Great Recession. She often contributed to stories about the US dollar at this time which was growing. While working as a production assistant, she also began covering currencies for Bloomberg Radio, where she would do a daily one-minute currency update every day. After her success on Bloomberg Radio, she began covering currencies on Bloomberg TV.

Sara Eisen later co-anchored Bloomberg Surveillance along with Tom Keene. She started covering more international stories during this time, including the European debt crisis, interviewing top political leaders and finance ministers. She also covered the outcome of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on the ground in Japan.

CNBC

Sara Eisen joined CNBC in December 2013 as a correspondent focusing on the global consumer. She is co-anchor of the 10 AM ET hour of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street (M-F, 9 AM-11 AM ET), broadcast from Post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange. Besides, Sara is a co-anchor of Closing Bell.

In January 2016, Eisen was named co-anchor of CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange (M-F, 5 AM-6 AM ET), which broadcasts from CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. CNBC anchors typically receive salaries of $600,000-$700,000 annually, according to Glassdoor.

On June 22, 2020, Eisen started working solely on Closing Bell alongside Wilfred Frost, according to a memo from Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of CNBC Business News. “We want Sara to have the ability to focus on a part of the day that, while always crucial, has become even more critical to our audience in these volatile times,” he said.

Writings

Sara Eisen edited and gave her commentary on “Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System” a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill in January 2013.

Charity Work

Sara Eisen supports the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization that educates about the Holocaust facing anti-semitism and all kinds of hate. She was motivated to join the organization by her grandparents, who were both survivors of the Holocaust. She is also associated with Room to Read, a charity that promotes girls’ literacy and children’s education in underserved communities in the developing world.

Family & Personal Life

Sara Eisen is the wife of Matthew Levine, a managing editor at Bloomberg Television. The family lives in New York City and has two children together. 

Eisen coincided with fellow journalist Matthew Stone Levine in 2011. At the time, they were both worked at Bloomberg TV. Soon enough, a relationship started to develop between the two. After dating for four years, the couple revealed that they were engaged in 2015. On May 29, 2016, they got married in a Jewish ceremony at Weylin B. Seymour’s event space and historic site in Brooklyn, New York. Levine used to be the head of US programming at Bloomberg TV. In March 2019, he joined Brunswick Group as a director.

Sara Eisen is doing well in her profession and known for her broad knowledge in financial markets and the global economy, as well as regular news making interviews with some of the most pre-eminent names in the financial world.

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