Carl Quintanilla is an anchor of the
CNBCCNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
network's "
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," morning program. Previously, Quintanilla was an NBC News correspondent based in New York and Chicago, and is a substitute on both
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and Today Show.
Reporting career
Carl Quintanilla is an Emmy award-winning co-anchor of “Squawk on the Street” (M-F, 9-11 a.m. ET) broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange.
Previously, Quintanilla was co-anchor of "Squawk Box," (M-F, 6-9 a.m. ET) CNBC’s signature morning program.
From 1991 to 1993, Quintanilla was a reporter/columnist for
Boulder Daily Camera in
Boulder, ColoradoBoulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
, and prior to that, he spent a summer as an editorial assistant for National Public Radio in Washington D.C. From 1994 to 1999, Quintanilla served as staff reporter for
The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
where he wrote full-time for the paper’s
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
bureau covering airlines, manufacturing and economic issues. He also wrote a weekly column on workplace issues and on-the-job trends for the Journal’s Page One. From 1999 to 2002 he served as correspondent for several CNBC programs including
Business Center. Prior to joining NBC, Quintanilla served as co-anchor for CNBC’s early-morning program,
Wake Up Call.
Quintanilla was assigned to cover the
2006 Israel-Lebanon ConflictThe 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War #Other uses|Tammūz]]) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War , was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. The principal parties were Hezbollah...
. In 2007, Quintanilla traveled to China to cover
McDonald'sMcDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
efforts in the country for CNBCs documentary
Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire.
He, along with his network, CNBC, was berated by
Jon StewartJon Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian...
in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis for failing to predict the downturn and ask tough questions of Wall Street CEOs. Quintanilla had once asked
Allen StanfordRobert Allen Stanford is a former prominent financier and sponsor of professional sports who is in prison awaiting trial on charges his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud. Stanford was the chairman of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of Companies. A fifth-generation...
, later pronounced the orchestrator of a "massive Ponzi scheme," how it felt to be a billionaire on his show--instead of "tougher" questions. This drew the ire of Stewart and other media commenatators.
Since 2010 Quintanilla has substitute anchored weekday and weekend editions of
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, covering when hosts
Brian WilliamsBrian Douglas Williams is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004...
and
Lester Holt respectively are on assignment or away. He also substitute co-hosts the
Today Show at weekends for Holt, and occasionally for news anchor
Natalie MoralesNatalie Leticia Morales is the news anchor for NBC's Today.-Career:Morales was an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC from 2002 to 2006...
or co-host
Matt LauerMatthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...
on the weekday program.
Awards
Quintanilla won an Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and
Peabody AwardThe George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...
for his coverage of
Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
in 2005.
Education
Quintanilla attended the
University of ColoradoThe University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
and received a
Bachelor of ArtsA Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in
Political SciencePolitical Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
in 1993.
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