Claman and how she got into business journalism

Park Place magazine’s Jen Miller profiles Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman and explores how she first started covering business news.

Miller writes, “The pair moved to New Jersey when Kepnes got a job launching MSNBC which, at the time, was located in Fort Lee. ‘I’m right behind you,’ Claman told him.  But even though she came from a top station in a top market, she couldn’t get a job on the national level.

“’I stopped, took stock, and recognized all my priorities,’ says Claman.That meant firing her agent and hiring a new one. ‘I don’t golf, but I’ll do the Golf Channel. I don’t cook, but I’ll do the home and garden channel,’ she told the agent.

“At the time, she considered her business know-how to be on the level of her golf prowess. ‘I didn’t even balance my checkbook,’ says Claman, but CNBC thought that audiences would relate to her, and hired her. It obviously was a good fit­–Claman is a sharp, feisty redhead with a soothing smile and tone of voice, even when she’s reporting on a pendulum market.

“‘I went to covering derivatives, oil markets, commodities, the stock exchange—it was a big change,’ she says. ‘To this day, I study every night, I research heavily for every interview I do. You can’t just stop caring once you get to the top. That’s how I got to Fox Business Network.’â€?

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