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How business journalists cope with covering the recession

Verne Gay of Newsday writes Sunday about how business journalists covering the recession cope with such a depressing story.

CNBC‘s Charles Gasparino, for example, works out for 75 minutes each day and drinks a martini every once in a while.

Gay writes, “‘It is incredibly challenging,’ says Alexis Glick, a vice president and anchor for the Fox Business Network. ‘Some days when I look back at myself in the fall, when things started to become unraveled, and individual family members of mine started losing their jobs or homes were on the edge of foreclosure. I felt pretty depressed. It’s hard because we’re so connected to the people we’re talking to.’

“For Glick, her refuge is family. ‘I shoot hoops with my boys,’ she says.

“For her colleague Peter Barnes, the network’s senior Washington correspondent, ‘mindless movies on Friday night’ are a standard outlet.

“‘Every Monday I feel like I’m starting a marathon,’ he says. His social life has evaporated: ‘I feel terrible about it, because I miss a lot of my friends, but realistically I’m just … fried. I don’t want to have to go out and do anything.'”