Financial journalist featured in SmartWoman magazine

FOX Business' Dagen McDowell recently did an interview with SmartWoman magazine about her career as a financial journalist. In the interview she details what she is most passionate about in finance, being a woman in the profession and the troubled state of newspapers.

From the interview:

''Q: Did you ever feel that people in the financial industry
didn’t take you seriously because you are a woman?

McDowell: Early on I got a great piece of advice from my editor at Institutional
Investor. Don’t refer to anyone as “Mr. So-and-so” when talking to them. Call them by their first names. Don’t subordinate yourself. That always seemed to work.''

Register parent names new CEO

The board of Freedom Communications Inc., parent company of the Orange County Register, named Burl Osborne as interim chief executive, Tuesday.

Osborne is replacing Scott Flanders, who is leaving Freedom Communications at the end of June for a similar position at Playboy Enterprises Inc..
Osborne has served as an independent director on Freedom’s board since May 2004. He also served as Associated Press chairman from 2002 to 2007, and Dallas Morning News publisher from 1986 to 2001.

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JobsPage relaunches with eNewsletter

Joe Grimm, the former recruiter for Freep.com, has relaunched JobsPage and created a new eNewsletter to accompany it. The Web site offers "Career Strategies for Journalists" and provides workshops, articles with career advice, journalism job/internship listings, an "Ask the Recruiter" section, and more.
Check out the new site here.

Harvard Crimson students flee the industry

The Harvard Crimson has seen fewer editors going on to journalism industry careers. Of 10 previous editors at the Harvard University newspaper, only two now work at newspapers.
Crimson editors choosing careers outside of journalism has become more common over the past 5 to 10 years according to Paras Bhayani, the departing managing editor. Bhayani said job scarcity and instability is deterring students from entering the field.
From the story:

“I would have loved to do something in political journalism,” Bhayani said. “A lot of us have been doing journalism since middle school or high school and it’s something we all love and care about. It’s sad that that possibility for a lot of us is gone.”

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FBN host's early career goals had nothing to do with business journalism

In a TribLIVE interview, FOX Business Network host Eric Bolling discusses his life before joining FBN. It turns out business news was not Bolling's first career choice. Before becoming the host of FBN's "Happy Hour," Bolling was on track to become a professional baseball player. But an early-career injury ended his baseball dreams. From there, Bolling took a job at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and later a position as a trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange. His popularity and reputation grew thanks to regular appearances on CNBC, which ultimately led him to FBN.

In the interview, Bolling also shares his views on the Big Three, getting through the crisis and baseball.

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