Day in the life of Petallides of Fox Business

The NewsonWomen.com site interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Nicole Petallides about her job and her career.

Here is an excerpt:

What skills do you use most often in your job?

Geeez huge question, what don’t I use?

For content I scour all the morning newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, business and news Web sites and all day I’m on Reuters and the Bloomberg terminal where I can get in-depth content for our viewers. I talk with analysts, CEOs, traders buying and selling huge blocks of stock all while trying to bring fresh news with some key perspective why we should care.

I write and research all my content for air. But I am the only person here at the NYSE for FOX Business so my job also entails turning on all my gear, camera, batteries, lighting, my graphics and I even gear up the floor guests. I book the traders to appear on camera and of course, yes, I do touch up my own hair and makeup too. It’s all good, keeps it real and I love the job in its entirety. I don’t do it all alone; the tech folks and the top notch production team on the other end at FOX uptown are the other half of this key equation and implement all that I start from down here.

And last but not least: on-air delivery, presentation, timing and appearance on TV — that’s a big focus too of course. I try to nail all that down every time as well. Television is a visual, live experience so it better be interesting and look crisp so we can keep our viewers and get new viewers each day too!