Categories: OLD Media Moves

From jock to business news

Neal Ungerleider of FishBowl New York interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Nicole Petallides — who played Division I soccer in college for three years — about working at the new business news channel.

Here is an excerpt:

FBNY: What was your take on all the initial media talk about FBN’s launch?

NP: I was just excited about starting the new network. Certainly, we worked incredibly hard. The network I think looks great. I think the team both in front and behind the camera was carefully selected because of their great experience.

FBNY: Since October, what has been the biggest change you’ve seen around FBN?

NP: At first the focus was about getting off the ground, and now the focus is on making it even better. People are persevering through the long hours and lots of work, and they’re still smiling. We’re adding new segments like “The Number” on Fox Business Morning where Ray Hennessey talks about the number that will be important on Wall Street and trading desks that day – whether it’s sales figures, jobs data or the price of oil. I also enjoy the “Winners and Sinners” segment because it’s not only business-focused, it’s about life.

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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.