How women break into business journalism

Stephanie Ruhle

Tiffany Dufu of Levo League interviewed Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s Becky Quick, and Bloomberg Television’s Betty Liu and Stephanie Ruhle about their careers and how they became successful in business journalism.

“I’m tough, but I am as tough on myself as anyone else,” said Ruhle (right), who is an anchor and managing editor of Bloomberg Television. “You have to treat everyone with the same level of respect.”

Quick, co-anchor of “Squawk Box,” told Dufu that Wall Street Journal editor Karen Pensiero was very influential : “I went to work with her with the intention of leaving and going to Washington, D.C. But I loved it so much.”

“She was a wonderful, wonderful boss. She gave me all kinds of opportunities. She loaned me out to other parts of the newspaper…and fill in on the commodities beat for a week.”

Watch the interviews here.

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.