Liz Claman's long hours

Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable writes Monday about Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman, whose work schedule has become crazy in the current economic crisis.

Guthrie writes, “On a recent afternoon at FBN’s New York studios, news breaks that GE has arranged to sell $3 billion in preferred stock to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Tracey Byrnes, an FBN analyst, muses: ‘Someone should call [former GE CEO] Jack Welch.’

“Claman picks up the phone next to the flat screen TV tuned to FBN’s coverage of the chaos on the trading floor and GE’s free-falling stock. In seconds, she has Welch’s assistant. Claman’s doggedness and enthusiasm combined with a market acumen honed over a decade on the business beat means CEOs take her calls.

“‘I don’t have the M.B.A.,’ she says, ‘yet CEOs still want to talk to me, it seems.’ Claman probably talks to Buffett more than most business reporters. She had the first major interview with the then somewhat mercurial CEO in 2006 while at CNBC. When she jumped to FBN, Buffett offered to be her first interview on her first day on the air.”

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