I didn't think i'd ever actually be a reporter. Remember having more than a hundred bylines at one point, and getting really discouraged and thinking it was never going to happen. But yo, being young and being low on the totem pole definitely helped. In fact, i helped launch w s j dot com because nobody else wanted to do it rigt. I learned h t m l, which is basically like the dumbest language of all time. You can code. Anybody can learn it in about an hour and a half. And you're basically like recoding the stories that have already been edited and written an our finished products. We were code monkeys, turning it into an
Having her family move around to different states wasn't fun for Becky Quick when she was a kid, but it made transitions later in life less frightening. She shares how she started working at her college newspaper before she even started classes, helped launch The Wall Street Journal's first website, and was initially reluctant to move to CNBC. Becky also discusses: - Early (and humorous) struggles in the transition from print journalism to TV - The importance of having fun on the set - Her unexpected introduction to Warren Buffett - Why she loves the business world
You can (and should) follow her on Twitter @BeckyQuick.
Host: Chris Hill Guest: Becky Quick Engineer: Dan Boyd
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