John Metaxas is a journalist and lawyer in New York. He anchors and reports for WCBS Newsradio 880 and WCBS-TV, where he has contributed to award-winning coverage of such stories as the New York City transit strike, the 2004 Republican Convention, the Cory Lidle plane crash, the Queens bridegroom shooting, the Hudson River airliner crash landing, the East Side crane collapse and the Bernard Madoff fraud. He has anchored election night cut-ins as well as coverage of the mayoral press conference on the evening of the fatal fire at the former Deutsche Bank building. He has broadcast live from the pace car of the New York City Marathon. John is of counsel at the Manhattan law firm Allegaert Berger & Vogel.

     For more than a decade at CNN and CNBC, John reported on the rise and fall of the financial markets and major financial news events. He anchored several news programs, including Your Money, CNN's weekly look at personal finance issues. His reports appeared internationally on all of CNN's networks, most notably on the program Moneyline with Lou Dobbs. He was CNN's Nasdaq correspondent, reporting daily from the MarketSite during that market's crash in 2000-01 and has reported live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

     As Chief Corporate Communications and Government Affairs Officer at E*TRADE, John counseled the CEO on all matters regarding interaction with the news media and created messaging related to corporate strategy, investor relations, crisis communications, interactions with regulators and executive compensation.

     John covered the 1988 presidential campaign as a reportorial producer for ABC News, where he produced reports that appeared on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and This Week with David Brinkley. He has written about legal trends as a staff reporter and legal editor of The National Law Journal and has  reported on several legal proceedings as a network correspondent, including the Michael Milken sentencing hearings, the FNN Bankruptcy and the Martha Stewart, Tyco and HealthSouth prosecutions.

     As an undergraduate at Columbia College, he was Station Manager and Sports Director of WKCR-FM, New York, where he anchored live coverage of the 1980 Democratic Convention from Madison Square Garden and broadcast live play-by-play of more than 100 Columbia sporting events.

Academic Background:

• Columbia College, A.B., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S.
• Columbia University School of Law, J.D.

Bar and Court Admissions:

• New York
• Southern District of New York
• Eastern District of New York

Community/Professional:

• New York State Bar Association (Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section)
• Federal Bar Council
  
• Advisory Council, Queens College Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.