Bess Levin, the editor of Dealbreaker.com, interviewed CNBC anchor Becky Quick of The New York Observer about her career and the current economic crisis.
Here is an excerpt:
How do you become Warren Buffet’s favorite journalist?
[laughs] I’m not his favorite! Carol Loomis at Fortune is his favorite. I got to be on Warren’s list by being a pain in the rear. He likes it when you go to his annual meeting because that’s his big party every year, so I went to that. And then I found out he was going to China in September 2007, and I called him up and was so nervous and asked him if I could come. There was this long pause and then finally he said, ‘O.K.’ We ended up talking on the whole plane ride over, for about 12 hours. We’re both from the Midwest, so we spoke each other’s language. It was on that trip and that plane ride we really hit it off.
When you walk into a Dairy Queen [a subsidiary of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway], are you treated like royalty?
[laughs] No, nobody knows who I am. I have to pay for my Misty Floats just like everyone else.
You don’t have a nickname like Maria Bartiromo (“The Money Honey”) or Erin Burnett (“The Street Sweetie”). That could be yours—Dairy Queen. What do you think? I can make it happen.
That makes me think of a cow! Come up with another one! Blizzard Babe. An homage to the Oreo Blizzard. Blizzard Babe’s O.K., but makes me sound a little frosty. Better than the Duchess of Dilly Bars, I suppose.
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