Keeping the Funny in Business Reporting

CNBC’s LA-based correspondent Jane Wells pulls back the curtain of her glamorous reporting job for the business news network – like what happens when a reporter is sent hundreds of miles into the desert for a live shot, only to have the chairman of the Federal Reserve cancel it.

Wells, whose sense of humor plays on camera, and off, writes about these and other inside stories from the TV news world on her CNBC.com blog, “Funny Business”

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