Bambi Francisco is an Internet Editor, columnist and correspondent. She is CBS MarketWatch's lead reporter on the Internet and new technologies. She writes Net Sense, a syndicated Weekly column on Internet companies and trends. Her e-mail newsletters have a subscriber base of nearly 300,000. She does weekly radio interviews across the country on CBS radio and appears on KPIX and CBS MarketWatch Weekend reporting on the Internet economy. She will also provide daily business updates on Viacom's new cable channel Spike TV, beginning Oct. 6.

She was named to the "blue-chip" financial reporting all-star team in 2000 by The Journal of Financial Reporters, the business news industry's most widely-read newsletter. She was also named the top 10 most influential journalists on the Web by Adweek. She was a contributing editor on a book titled, "Who's Hedging What and Why," a book on hedging techniques by major corporations.

Ms. Francisco holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University, attended New York University for graduate courses in journalism and is currently pursuing her Masters in Theology at Westminister Theological Seminary.