OLD Media Moves

How covering monetary policy and financial regulation means knocking on doors

December 10, 2018

Posted by Chris Roush

Victoria Guida

David Beckwith of Macro Musings interviewed Victoria Guida, a reporter for Politico where she covers monetary policy and financial regulation.

Here is an excerpt:

David Beckwith: How did you become a financial journalist?

Victoria Guida: Yeah, so I kind of fell into it. I majored in political science and journalism in college, so no particular focus on economics and finance, but the first couple of internships I had were business reporting internships and then I worked at the Charlotte Observer briefly after college in a business reporting role. And you know Charlotte is a big banking town, so that was sort of my first taste of that. And then when I came to Washington, I started out covering trade policy, so different area of economics, and I covered that for four years and that’s how I found my way to Politico. Because they hired me for my trade expertise. And after I’d been covering trade policy for a while I felt like I sort of had understood this very small niche of the economy, and I wanted to understand more broadly how finance worked and so I … there was an opening here at Politico and I jumped at it, so I’ve been covering it ever since.

David: Yeah, and you have a really neat sounding job. You literally … well, I think you do. Let me ask you this … you walk the halls of Congress, you knock on doors, you make calls, is that part of your job?

Victoria Guida: That all sounds right, yeah.

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