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Kind of a happy accident

June 30, 2011

Posted by Chris Roush

Bloomberg Television anchor Betty Liu talked with Tara Williams of Baristanet about her career and her personal life.

Here is an except:

Q: What drew you to financial reporting?

It was kind of a happy accident.  I had all of these visions when I graduated college that I was one day going to be a foreign correspondent working for The New York Times or writing for the features section of The Times or The New Yorker magazine—those were my dreams as I was graduating UPenn.

As luck would have it after I left university, I found this posting at Dow Jones Newswires, which I had no idea it was a business newswire.  I just saw that it was AP Dow Jones and I thought, “Great. It has the words AP in it.”  This is part of the dream I had working overseas with the Associated Press.  So I applied for the job and I became one of the copy editors for it.

But the reason why I loved it was because they told me right away that if I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, I could do so in the next couple of years, so I snatched that opportunity and knew I wanted to work overseas—I didn’t care if it was business or not—I just wanted to do it.  The rest is history.

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