Myron Kandel was the founding financial Editor and economic Commentator for CNN.

He became the part of CNN's original launch team in 1980 and was a pioneer in the frowth and development of financial news on television in general up to his retirement in 2005.

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Myron Kandel started his career in Journalism as a Copy boy at the New York Times in 1951, while completing his senior year at Brooklyn College and then while earning a Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Upon graduation, he was promoted to Copy editor at the New York Times and later became a financial reporter.

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Later Myron became a Business Editor of Washington Star and then a Foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, covering Germany and the European Common Market.

He returned to the U.S.

in 1964 to became a financial editor of the New York Herald Tribune, holding that post until the paper folded in 1966. ^[4]

After that, Myron became an Editor and President of the New York Law Journal and subsequently served as the founding editor and Publisher of several newsletters, including The Wall Street Letter, the Corporate Shareholder and Review of the Financial Press.

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From 1976 to 1982, Myron Kandel Co-authored the Greer/Kandel Report, a syndicated financial column that appeared in leading papers around the country.

He was also a financial editor of the New York Post from 1977 to 1979, before leaving to help launch CNN.

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Myron Kandel is the author of "How to Cash In on the Coming Stock Market Boom," published in January 1982.

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Myron has received a Peabody Award for CNN' s coverage of the 1987 stock market crash and a magazine award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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He has taught Journalism at the City College of New York and Columbia University and lectures frequently in the U.S.

and abroad. ^[4]

Kandel has been the President of several journalism groups, including the New York Financial Writers' Association, the Columbia Journalism Alumni association, the Deadline Club chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Silurians.

He also served twice, 20 years apart, as President of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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In 2000, TJFR, a media industry publication, named him one of the 10 most influential Business journalist s of the 20th century.

He has been a member of the Museum's Board of Trustees since 2006.

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He has received a number of Lifetime Achievement Award s and on May 15, 2006, he was named the recipient of the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

He has also received three honorary doctorate degrees: from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania; Bethany College in West Virginia, and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

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In December 2005 the state of New Hampshire named him President of the newly formed Initiative for Corporate responsibility and Investor protection.

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In 2005, Myron Kandel quitted Journalism.