Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, and Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, was honored with the 2026 Horatio Alger award Friday night in Washington, D.C. This distinguished award recognizes people who have achieved notable professional success while overcoming substantial obstacles.
Bartiromo grew up in an Italian American family, working in her father’s restaurant in New York. Her family’s hard work helped chart her future, according to a press release.
She began her broadcasting career with an internship at CNN. In 1993, she was hired by CNBC as an on-air reporter and became the first person to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Bartiromo called the New York Stock Exchange a “boy’s club,” where she had to distinguish herself as a female journalist.
20 years later, in 2013, she joined Fox Business. She now hosts three shows for the network.
“As part of this organization, I look forward to supporting the next generation of scholars and helping them pursue their passions,” Bartiromo said in the release. “I think it’s so important to find what you love and pursue it fearlessly. That’s the lesson I want to pass on.”
“I think my story is the American dream,” she said.
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Fox & Friends Weekend congratulated Bartiromo on Saturday.
You can watch her video for the Horatio Alger Association here.
