- Trish Regan
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name=Trish Regan
Trish Regan is an American broadcast journalist. She co-anchors CNBC's "The Call", (weekdays from 11 am - Noon EST), reports for CNBC's investigative magazine program [http://www.cnbc.com/id/16586545 Business Nation] as well as provides analysis for NBC's [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619 Nightly News] and The Today Show. In addition to her daily reporting and anchoring at CNBC, Regan has covered U.S.–Russia relations from the G-8 summit in Germany, traveled to Bogota, Colombia where she [http://www.cnbc.com/id/19680158 interviewed President Alvaro Uribe,] investigated the U.S. Army corps' efforts in New Orleans, and reported on the link between piracy and terror from a region in South America considered one of the most dangerous in world: [http://www.cnbc.com/id/21082897/site/14081545/page/2 the Tri-Border] . (See Regan's [http://www.cnbc.com/id/21104899 A Diary From A Dangerous Place] )
Regan joined CNBC from CBS News where she was a correspondent reporting for The CBS Evening News. (See [http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/03/12/trish-regan-joins-cnbc Regan joins CNBC] ). She also contributed to [http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/ftn/main3460.shtml Face the Nation] and [http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/48hours/main3410.shtml 48 Hours.] Regan's focus at CBS was the U.S. economy. She reported on economic policy issues including healthcare (see [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/05/health/main1472847.shtml Massachusetts Passes Health Care] ), social security (see Chile's [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/10/eveningnews/main679435.shtml privatized social security system] and government pensions. Regan also reported extensively on Latin American political and economic affairs including a series on terrorist fundraising in South America. Her work on the terror connection between the Tri-Border region of South America and Islamic terrorist groups earned her a [http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_txt/news_28th_nominees_all.txt National Emmy Award nomination] for Investigative Reporting in 2007. Additionally, Regan covered prominent National events including the
Enron scandal , the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, the 2006 State of the Union address, and the three major hurricanes to hit the U.S. in 2005: Katrina, Rita and Wilma.Previously, Regan was a correspondent for [http://www.marketwatch.com/?dist=ctmw CBS MarketWatch] . In 2002, her work at CBS MarketWatch earned her The Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Under 30 Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. While at CBS MarketWatch, she contributed to CBS News and reported and anchored for the CBS-owned station in San Francisco. Prior to that, Regan was a correspondent at [http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/tv Bloomberg Television.]
Personal life
Regan graduated
cum laude fromColumbia University with abachelor's degree inU.S. history . She is also an honors graduate ofPhillips Exeter Academy . She is fluent in Spanish and Italian.Regan began her career working at [http://www2.goldmansachs.com Goldman, Sachs & Co.] in emerging debt markets and at the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw & Co. Regan has said she never intended to have a career in either finance or news — instead, she grew up wanting to become an opera singer. [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cnbcs-trish-regan-has-no/story.aspx?guid=%7BED4F58F4-3003-4FB6-983E-8143DCDC5E37%7D ("CNBC's Trish Regan has no trouble being heard")]
A former
Miss New Hampshire in the Miss America pageant, Regan won the first annual Bernard Wayne award (Bernard Wayne is the composer of the theme song 'There She Is, Miss America') for the contestant with the most promise in the performing arts. Regan studied classical voice in Graz, Austria and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston before enrolling at Columbia. While still in high school, Regan was awarded first place in the Harvard Musical Association's competition. She was born onMarch 8 ,1977 and grew up inNew Hampshire , a state she sometimes references on 'The Call'. [http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080608/NEWS/806080350 ("Hampton native, PEA grad reports on CNBC's 'The Call'")] She and her husband, investment banker James A. Ben, were married in 2001, live in New York, and still spend some of their free time onLake Winnipesaukee .In April 2006, the
Houston Chronicle named her one of ten women in broadcast news to watch and stated, "she shows exceptional ability to report. She's a future star".External links
* [http://www.cnbc.com/id/17579209/ CNBC Biography]
* [http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838394/site/14081545 CNBC's _The Call_ website]
* [http://trishreganfan4life.wordpress.com/ Fan site with photo collage]
* [http://www.watchingthemediaforyou.com/2008/05/is-trish-regan-cnbcs-new-chosen-one.html Is Trish Regan CNBC's New Chosen One?]
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