Varney of Fox Business: Business news is now more perspective

Stuart Varney, the anchor of “Varney & Co.” on Fox Business Network, talked to 201 magazine’s Ian Spelling about living in New Jersey and his career as a business journalist.

Spelling writes, “‘You’ve got to be fast, you’ve got to be right, and you’ve got to put out the information in a way that’s understandable,’ says the longtime Franklin Lakes resident, husband and father of six, who is British-American. ‘That’s one of the things we’re trying to do at Fox Business Network and on Varney & Company. I don’t like jargon. I think it gets in the way of you and your viewer. So we don’t talk about earnings per share. We’re more direct than that and try to talk in a way that’s understandable to everybody.'”

Varney later stated: “Business news has really changed completely. It used to be all detailed information because, back in the day, when I started, television was the only place you could get the price of gold, the price of a stock, that kind of thing. Nowadays you can get that information at the click of a mouse from any screen anywhere, at any time. So business news has changed from being just detailed, factual information to a lot more perspective about how things are happening, why things are happening. That’s the change.”

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