About Joe Connolly
New York Magazine praised Joe Connolly for weaving “instructive vignettes from routine business stories.” The Wall Street Journal describes Joe’s reports as “serious entertainment.” And a competitor said that Joe Connolly’s business reports are like “a jazz riff” – of business stories.
Joe’s business reports on WCBS are heard by 2 million people a week and by more worldwide on the Wall Street Journal’s web site, wsj.com.
Joe has worked for WCBS radio twice in his career. He is now a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he provides business news reports to WCBS.
Joe has covered The White House for Associated Press Radio. He has covered presidential campaigns, Congress – and sports.
He was once a press secretary in the United States Congress.
He has been a member of management in the media industry, as Assistant News Director of the all news radio station in Washington, D.C. and as Managing Editor of the RKO Radio Network in New York.
He has won many awards for his reporting from groups ranging from the New York State Certified Public Accountants for broadening financial understanding to The New York Press Club for his daily small business reports, which have aired on WCBS for more than ten years. A few weeks ago he was presented an award by Manhattan South business owners for being “the best friend an entrepreneur could have.”
Joe has been compared to Charles Osgood, Andy Rooney and Garrison Keillor. One business owner said, “ Joe Connolly is my Imus.”
And one radio executive has said that “Joe has changed the way that business news sounds on the radio in America by broadening the definition of business news beyond stock and bond prices to information that everyone can use – to save more, earn more, sell more and improve the quality of their life.”
