A day in the life of Charles Gasparino of Fox Business

Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino talked with Uri Friedman of The Atlantic about what his normal day is like.

Here is an exerpt:

“When I wake up around 7 or 7:30, I’ll go between NY1 and Imus in the background and start looking at the papers online. The Wall Street Journal, which I subscribe to online, is required reading and I’ve been doing that since college. The New York Post has a really good business section and, because they write concisely, I can get through it fast. Then I read The Times but I don’t read it as closely as I read The Journal. I’m just skimming for stories because I like to know what the competition is doing. And then if I’m covering a story I’ll put the keywords in Google. For example, I broke the story about Nasdaq looking to make a hostile bid for the New York Stock Exchange and I would put in ‘Nasdaq’ and ‘Greifeld,’ Nasdaq’s CEO. Then I’m reading a couple blogs, especially Dealbreaker because it’s funny and it covers the right stories. All day, I’m going between the Journal, the Times, the New York Post, and Dealbreaker and following the stories I’m covering.

“Every morning, I jog to the park and do pull-ups and push-ups and wind sprints. It’s about an hour-and-a-half routine — six sets — and between sets I’m checking my email, making five-minute calls (I save the long interviews for when I get to the office), and looking at stories.  You’d be surprised how much you can get done; by the time the workout’s done I have my day planned. My day on TV starts around 11 and I’m usually on air until about 7. I do ‘hits’ — I’ll come on at least three times a day to do planned stories. If I’m doing a hit on Dobbs at 7:30, say, I’ll have an hour and a half of downtime because the day’s gone — the Wall Street guys hit the bars around 4:30 or 5 — so I’ll usually hit the gym and do a 30-40 minute pure weights workout at Fox. In the gym I have my BlackBerry on constantly.”

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