Life on the Happy Hour set

Joshua Brown of The Reformed Broker interviews Fox Business Network “Happy Hour” co-anchor Cody Willard about what it’s like working on the show.

Here is an excerpt:

TRB: What are the major differences between working in financial television as opposed to financial journalism?  Do you have more or less editorial control over your message and subject matter?

CW: It’s pretty similar, frankly.  You have editors and/or producers and/or bosses and/or fans who all push back on what you say, write, think and do.  I’ve never really considered myself a financial journalist since I was mostly writing about what I considered my day job, which was running a hedge fund from 2002 and 2007 as I was writing for the Financial Times, TheStreet.com and magazines and what not.

Now I am now a full-time financial television dude…I still wouldn’t dare call myself a financial journalist though – I don’t think the typical journalist can say that “Ken Lewis has been lying to regulators and investors for years.  Hey, prosecutors and regulators – wake up and put this guy in jail already!”  Which is something I say every chance I get.

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