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Liz Claman is anchor of CNBC's "Morning Call" (M-F, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET).
Claman, an award-winning journalist, joined CNBC in April 1998, after spending three years as an anchor/reporter for NBC affiliate WHDH-TV, Boston. During that time, she also served as contributing correspondent for the NBC-syndicated daytime show, "RealLife."
Prior to that, Claman was an anchor at WEWS-TV (ABC) in Cleveland, where she won an Emmy Award for Best Morning Anchor for her work on the two-hour morning show, "Morning Exchange." She also gained recognition for her live coverage of Hurricane Andrew and the historic floods in Des Moines, Iowa. Claman began her on-camera career at the ABC affiliate WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio first as a reporter and then, a weekend anchor. Her first foray into television news was as a news intern, and then a news associate at KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. There, at age 23, she became the youngest person in the history of the station to win a local Emmy for Best Spot News Producer. Claman also won a Los Angeles Golden Mike Award for contributing to the station’s coverage of the 1987 Los Angeles Earthquake.
Since joining CNBC, she has anchored shows ranging from "Today’s Business," "Wake Up Call," "Morning Call," and "MarketWrap."
Her first book, The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received (Warner) was published in November 2006.
Claman is a Big Sister in the Big Brother/Big Sister program at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services of Manhattan and holds a bachelor's degree in French language from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Certificat Superieur from the Universite' de Paris, La Sorbonne. An avid runner, she completed the New York City Marathon in November 2005.
Publications:
The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received: Priceless Wisdom from Warren Buffett, Jim Cramer, Suze Orman, Steve Forbes, and Dozens of Other Top Financial Experts by Liz Claman (Hardcover, Warner, November 2006) | 