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Hitting the serious topics hard

Jenny Schafer of CelebrityBabyScoop.com interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis about her career and her new show.

Here is an excerpt:

CBS: How did you go from child actor to FOX Business anchor?

MF: “I majored in economics at Harvard, and business and the economy are my passion. I fell in love with news because it’s unscripted, at least in my case. Business news puts all this together. I love my job.”

CBS: Tell us all about your new business show on FOX. What will we learn about the world of business?

MF: “It’s called MONEY with Melissa Francis and airs daily at 5 PM Eastern. I debate and debunk the top money stories of the day. The market, the economy, the intersection of Main Street and Wall Street, the political stories that involve your money. We hit the serious topics hard, but we also have fun. We created a segment called Disagree With Me. It basically saves my mother-in-law the trouble.”

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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.