Kara Miller of the Boston Globe talked with Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis about her career and about her recent interview with Rep. Barney Frank
Here is an excerpt:
You recently left CNBC for Fox Business Network, and you’re now hosting a new show. How do the two workplaces differ?
Roger Ailes [president of Fox News] just told me about his vision for the network, and it was so exciting that I just jumped at the chance to move. I think that Fox is a lot broader. CNBC caters to day traders who are trading stocks from home, and Fox has more politics and more Main Street implications.
But I loved CNBC. I was there for nine years and still have a lot of friends there. I also love Fox and am having a fantastic time.
You first got into economics while at Harvard. Did you always know that you wanted to cover the financial world?
I majored in econ at Harvard. Harvard doesn’t have practical majors! After freshman year, I went to career counseling to see what I wanted to do. My dad said maybe you want to be a lawyer, or I could have potentially gone back into acting. But I got an internship at the Fox affiliate in L.A., went there for a summer, and I was hooked. It was such a rush of adrenaline, working up to the deadline of the show.
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