CBC’s Lang talks about moving to Bloomberg TV

Amanda Lang

Gordon Pitts of The Globe and Mail interviewed CBC business journalist Amanda Lang, who is leaving to host a show on Bloomberg Television’s new Canadian operation.

Here is an excerpt:

Will it be different working for Bloomberg?
It is more important to bring a critical eye to this stuff, and be heard by the business community. There are big issues around how capitalism is failing and business alone can fix it, in the same way that threatening Lower Manhattan with rising sea levels is our best bet for fixing climate change. They need to appreciate that inequity will come home to roost.
Did you miss Kevin O’Leary, your former co-host?
The live sparring was fun. I liked him, but not always what he said. Sometimes I found it abhorrent. We had worked together for 12 years at two networks. When he left in 2014, I had an existential moment: Who am I on TV without Kevin? The numbers for The Exchange with Amanda Lang were really good—better than with him. It was gratifying that the new CBC show reached a strong audience.

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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.