How CNBC’s Lee juggles three shows

CNBC anchor Melissa Lee was interviewed by Juan Machado of The Asia Society about her career.

Here is an excerpt:

By our count, you host three CNBC shows: Power Lunch, Fast Money, and Options Action. How do you manage the workflow?
One show at a time! As a TV journalist, you’re constantly in prep mode — reading everything from newspapers to research reports to blogs. You don’t know if anything you’re reading that day will actually be useful on air that day. But it’s like building a bank of knowledge to draw on in the future.
The one thing I have learned too about workflow is that no matter how overwhelmed you feel, always be in the moment. When I’m on at 2 p.m. ET for Power Lunch, I can’t be preoccupied with what’s going to happen on my 5 p.m. ET show Fast Money. My focus and energy has to be 100 percent on the task at hand.

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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.