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Claman of Fox Business on covering the tech world

Kelly E. Carter of Haute Living profiles Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman.

Carter writes, “At CNBC in New York, she scored interviews with financial honchos including Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, and former Treasury Secretary John Snow before jumping to the newbie FBN, which launched in October 2007. Claman has wowed from the beginning, managing to snag an exclusive interview with Buffett for her debut.

“Despite Claman’s gumption and drive, FBN couldn’t seem to land big-name interviews at tech conferences. ‘They’d say, ‘Sorry, but you’re fourth in line behind PBS,’’ Claman said. ‘So we thought, ‘Why don’t we just start our own conference?’’

“Voila—3 Days in the Valley was hence born. At the appropriately-numbered three-day annual summit, Claman receives unprecedented access to tech industry heavyweights, up-and-comers and venture capitalists alike, all of whom give viewers information on new trends, products and stars.

“‘We were the first to ever put the Twitter guys on a business network,’ boasts Claman, who also had the foresight to snag LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner way back in 2008 as well.”

Read more here.

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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