FOX News veteran Maria Bartiromo is out at the network after more than 12 years, bringing an abrupt end to her long-running shows across Fox News and Fox Business.
The company announced on Thursday that Bartiromo is no longer part of Fox News Media, effective immediately.
The shake-up was announced just hours after the final episode of Mornings with Maria aired on Fox Business – the 58-year-old anchor did not appear.
“We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” Fox News Media said in a statement.
No reason for Bartiromo’s departure was given in the announcement.
Bartiromo’s sudden exit also immediately fueled speculation among some Trump allies over whether she could be headed for the White House.
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Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, whose New York district includes parts of Bartiromo’s native Brooklyn, floated her for the currently vacant press secretary job.
“Maria Bartiromo is the best in the business and a proud product of our congressional district,” Malliotakis wrote on X.
“Maybe it’s time for a Brooklyn girl to be the next White House Press Secretary?”
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson also seized on the timing of her Fox departure, asking, “Maria Bartiromo is out at Fox News Media ahead of a possible Press Secretary Reveal at The White House. Is it her?”
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However, Vanity Fair reported on Thursday that Bartiromo is “not leaving for a job in the Trump admin,” citing a source.
No new role for Bartiromo has been announced.
The speculation comes as Trump has yet to name a permanent successor to Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down as press secretary at the end of August.
Vice President JD Vance was due to handle Thursday’s White House briefing while the position remains vacant.
Her three-hour weekday program, which airs from 6am to 9am ET, will now lose her name and become Mornings with FOX Business.
The revamped show will begin on Friday and use a rotation of anchors rather than immediately naming a permanent replacement.
Bartiromo’s weekly Fox Business program, Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street, is also being rebranded.
The Friday night show will become FBN’s Wall Street, with Cheryl Casone hosting this week’s edition before rotating anchors take over.
Bartiromo also built a close on-air relationship with President Donald Trump during her years at Fox, interviewing him repeatedly on both Fox News and Fox Business.
Trump remained a frequent guest on her programs after returning to the White House.
He sat down with Bartiromo for an extensive Mornings with Maria interview on April 15, just months before her departure, to discuss issues facing his administration.
Fox also aired several Bartiromo interviews with Trump throughout 2025, covering the economy, immigration, energy and foreign policy.
Her relationship with Trump had drawn attention long before his second term – and long before he appointed her to the board of the Kennedy Center in March 2025.
Bartiromo also became a prominent figure in the legal fallout from Fox’s coverage after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
Voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic both sued Fox over false claims about election fraud aired following the vote, with Bartiromo’s broadcasts among those scrutinized in the cases.
Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle its defamation lawsuit in 2023, without the case going to trial.
The separate Smartmatic case remains ongoing.
A 2021 Business Insider profile reported that Bartiromo had “bet big” on Trump as she sought to expand from her Wall Street roots into political coverage and potentially land a Fox News primetime role.
The outlet reported that her relationship with Trump helped boost her ratings and following among conservative viewers, marking a shift for an anchor who had spent decades primarily covering markets and the economy.
Former Fox Business and CNBC colleague Dennis Kneale told Business Insider at the time, “As Trump came under attack, Maria stepped up to take a stand and let her thoughts be known.”
“And that was surprising to people who’ve been watching her for years do the objective middle-of-the-road thing,” he added.
Bartiromo had previously secured an exclusive interview with Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020 and continued landing interviews with him in the years that followed.
Pete Hegseth, the current Secretary of War, was a host of Fox & Friends Weekend for years before being appointed to his White House role, while Jeanine Pirro spent 14 years with the network before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was also the co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business, and FBI deputy director Dan Bongino was host of Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox until 2023.
The network said a new weekday programming schedule will be announced in the coming weeks.
As for Bartiromo, she also hosted Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News Channel, a role she had held since the program launched in 2014.
Fox’s Thursday announcement did not separately reveal what will replace the Sunday program or who could take over its 10am slot.
The departure closes a major chapter for one of the most recognizable names in financial television.
Bartiromo joined Fox Business in January 2014 after spending two decades at rival CNBC.
She initially joined Fox as its global markets editor and was tapped to anchor programming on both Fox Business and Fox News Channel.
She later became the face of Mornings with Maria, which Fox has described as the number-one pre-market business news program on cable.
Bartiromo’s television career stretches back decades.
Before Fox, she spent 20 years at CNBC, where she helped launch Squawk Box, anchored Closing Bell and fronted On the Money.
She made television history in 1995 when she became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis.
The milestone helped make her one of the best-known faces covering Wall Street and earned her the nickname “Money Honey.”
Before joining CNBC in 1993, Bartiromo worked behind the scenes at CNN Business News as a producer, writer and assignment editor.
Her career has also included interviews with some of the biggest names in politics and business, including presidents, cabinet officials and CEOs such as JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Bartiromo won two Emmys and became the first female journalist inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2011.
