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Bartiromo: I wanted to get away from stock market focus

Brian Flood of Adweek magazine interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about her job.

Here is an excerpt:

You moved to Fox two years ago from CNBC. How was that shift from a cultural perspective?
Well, it is a different culture. The move, for me, was really terrific. I had been at CNBC for 20 years and I think that the culture had become a little short term. I wanted to get away from being too stock-market centric. Fox and [Fox News chief] Roger Ailes offered me something that I couldn’t pass up, which was to help him build the Fox Business Network and also have a Sunday program on Fox News Channel, which is now the highest-rated Sunday show on cable. I love it. The culture is different here. There is a culture here, and it comes from the top; you know who is in charge. You know Roger is the boss and you know that he supports his people. The culture is like, “We’re winning and we’re going to keep our heads down and continue winning.”

Your show recently moved from 9 a.m. to 6 a.m. How did this change your lifestyle?
It definitely changed my lifestyle. You know, I have to be in bed at 8:30. I get up every day at 3:30 in the morning. We’re live at 6 a.m. so I have to be here at 5-5:15, and so, I definitely go out less. I have to admit that. It did cut into my social life. But I don’t mind. I love being on first thing in the morning. I take naps now. I can go to dinner but I have to be home real early.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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