Up early in the morning

201 magazine’s Ian Spelling profiles CNBC “Squawk Box” co-anchor Becky Quick about her job and what it entails.

Here is an excerpt:

“We work early hours, from 6 to 9 a.m., which means we’re in at 4/4:30 a.m. and already drinking our caffeine, reading all the morning’s papers and digging through the computers to find out what’s happened since everybody went to sleep the night before.

“The great thing about being on so early is that you get all the news as it hits the wires. My co-anchors, Joe Kernen and Carl Quintanilla, and I love that more than anything because we love getting the news live, while we’re on the air, and trying to interpret exactly what it means, how to ask the best questions, so we can set the business agenda for the day. We need to tell people what they should be thinking about before the market even opens.”

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