John Jannarone is an Italian-American businessman who is founder of Capital Markets Media LLC, the sole owner o
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He was previously senior writer at CNBC, which he joined in 2014. Previously, he was a corporate media and entertainment writer at ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

.'' In 2008, Jannarone joined ''The WSJ's'' financial analysis section
Heard on the Street
as a Singapore-based reporter. Prior to that Jannarone worked as a deputy bureau chief at Dow Jones, as an analyst at The Hartnett Group in

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and at

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. Jannarone is most well known for breaking the story about ''The WSJ's'' corporate parent News Corp. splitting into two divisions: Entertainment and Publishing. Jannarone is well known for his work which "expos daccounting irregularities at

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. The irregularities caused a 70% fall in the company's stock price and a collapse of the planned $2.4 billion takeover of Pringles and resignation of the CEO.

Personal

Born in 1980, Jannarone currently resides in

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. He obtained his degree in economics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

where he graduated ''cum laude''.

References

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