Tag Archives: Cathy Baron Tamraz

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary College Contest Highlight: Robert Brown

It’s too bad we’re not having a contest for the most nicknames because our next finalist Robert Brown would take the prize. Robert Brown, also known as Bob, Bobby, Bobert, Beebs, and Bawb is one of our top ten college video finalists for Business Wire’s college video contest. In celebration for our 50th anniversary, one student [...]

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary College Contest Highlight: Scott Berman

In less than six weeks, one lucky student will meet Warren Buffett, chairman & CEO of Business Wire’s parent company, Berkshire Hathaway, at Business Wire’s NYSE Opening Bell luncheon on September 30th, 2011.  Business Wire’s college video contest invited students to answer the question “What is the future of public relations and communications?” We’ve managed [...]

Business Wire CEO Cathy Baron Tamraz Talks Women CEOs, Warren Buffett and 50 Years of Trust on Fox Business

Business Wire Chairman and CEO Cathy Baron Tamraz talks about women CEOs, working hard, and the secret to Business Wire’s 50 years of success with Fox Business News.

April in Omaha: My Invitation to 2011 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

by Deb Subia, Editorial Process Development Manager, Business Wire A dozen lucky Business Wire employees from several U.S. bureaus and London joined CEO Cathy Baron Tamraz in Omaha for the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.  I was thrilled to be one of them. Never having been, I was anxious to attend the meeting – okay, [...]

Calling All College Students: Enter Our 50th Anniversary Video Contest & Win a Trip to Meet Warren Buffett in New York

Business Wire is going back to school! In our 50 years in the industry, we’ve seen first-hand how the communications world has changed & played a pretty big role in many of those changes along the way. Looking to the future as part of our 50th Anniversary, we want the next generation of communicators to [...]

Disclosure: The Dawning of the Age of Precarious – Let the Sunshine Back In

by Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Business Wire Once upon a time, in the Year 2000, a wonderful law was passed that protected the interests of all investors in our great land. You may have heard of it; it was called Regulation Fair Disclosure.  Thanks to the great mind of Arthur Levitt, [...]

Interview: Cathy Baron Tamraz on “2 Minutes & More”

Business Wire CEO & Chairman Cathy Baron Tamraz recently sat down for a few minutes with Renee White Fraser and Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire, hosts of 2Minutes&More, an hourlong business program that airs Sunday afternoons on KFWB-AM in Los Angeles. Both of the hosts are successful business owners who each week share their own tips for success and interview [...]

Business Wire – Our “Raison D’etre”

by Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Business Wire SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, in prepared remarks to the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals last Friday, stated the SEC is intent on ensuring that all investors have access to a highly complex and technologically sophisticated trading market. We at Business Wire could [...]

Pennies From Omaha

It’s nearly that time again:  The 2010 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting is this coming Saturday, May 1.  I will be attending this year’s meeting, along with nine other Business Wire people including our CEO, Cathy Baron Tamraz.  And once more, Business Wire is providing a fun item for other attendees to pick up and help [...]

Cathy Baron Tamraz Discusses Disclosure and Transparency

Cathy Baron Tamraz, Business Wire President & CEO, discusses the challenges facing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner regarding maintaining and increasing transparency in the financial markets in a new commentary at FinReg21.
Tamraz’s recommendations, combined with new SEC chief Mary Schapiro’s “visceral reaction” to the idea of web-based disclosure in which market participants have to go looking for financial information, [...]