Sydney Topf of The Washington Examiner profiled Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo about her career and how she learned to cover a developing story.
Topf writes, “Bartiromo, who started her career at CNN as a production assistant, cited her early years as the foundation for her ability to cover breaking news. The first story she covered was the Iraq War.
“‘I learned how to cover a story as it was actually happening,’ she said. ‘This is before Fox News, because Fox News came later. CNN was doing something that nobody was doing, and that was reporting on stories as they were happening.’
“After CNN, Bartiromo went to CNBC, where she became the first journalist to report live from the New York Stock Exchange. She was able to cover the Stock Exchange in real time as trading was happening because of her experience covering the Iraq War.
“‘I learned very quickly about how to cover a story as it was developing, how to show the audience,’ she told the Washington Examiner. ‘Take the audience behind the situation, show them what was happening as it was happening, so that they felt that they were there.'”
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