Sybil Blau of the Danbury News-Times in Connecticut profiles Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto, who grew up in the area.

Blau writes, “He comes into work, meets with his teams on FNC and FBN and addresses the day’s agenda, discussing with assorted people and teams of people the topics, issues and opinions of the day.

“By airtime, at 4 p.m., he’s on his game and ready to go.

“According to Stuart Varney, host of ‘Varney & Company’ on FBN as well as a business contributor and substitute host on ‘Your World with Neil Cavuto,’ Cavuto’s game is spot on.

“‘Neil delivers clarity,’ Varney said. ‘You know exactly what he’s talking about. That’s what makes him the most successful business anchor in 20 years. And I like him. I’ve never heard a bad word about him.

“‘You find yourself liking him because he has a sense of humor. He smiles. He laughs. He has a gleam in his eye. He’s the kind of guy you’d enjoy having lunch with. Viewers are drawn to him.’”

Kirsten Sanchez of The Bronx Times profiles Fox Business Network senior reporter Charles Gasparino, who is a Bronix native.

Sanchez writes, “Gasparino returned to New York after graduating with a Master’s degree in journalism and started his career in print journalism as a senior writer at Newsweek magazine where he broke major stories involving Wall Street and corporate America, including developments at the New York Stock Exchange under Richard Grasso and former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s crackdown on corporate crime.

“Gasparino also served as a writer for The Wall Street Journal, earning him a New York Press Club award for best continuing coverage of the Wall Street research scandal.

“Prior to joining Fox Business Network, he was also an on-air editor for CNBC, responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories during the financial crisis.

“‘I think the most important story of my career was covering the financial crisis,’ he said. ‘I think you could say the reporting I did during that time was the most significant I ever did. It was important it shined a light on some of the crappy practices that Wall Street engages in.’”

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Thomas Heath of The Washington Post profiles Fox Business Network senior Washington correspondent Peter Barnes, who in addition to covering business has also invested and started businesses.

Heath writes, “Barnes is not just any working journalist. He is a resilient risk-taker, qualities that I envy.

“The entrepreneur has actually put his cash, time and reputation into three start-ups. He has written business plans, raised money, met a payroll, paid taxes, hired and fired and — when it didn’t work — figured out the next thing. He can read a balance sheet and knows that ‘discount rate’ is not the price of something at Wal-Mart.

“‘I really understand how hard it is to be an entrepreneur,’ Barnes said. ‘Every person who is successful and is a gazillionaire, a lot of them have failed.’

“Then he sent me the above quote from Samuel Smiles, which hung on the wall of one of his ventures.

“Barnes, who lives in Alexandria, knows risk: He raised $300,000 — including the proceeds from the sale of a cherished childhood coin collection — to fund his first start-up.”

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Helen Mondloch of Northern Virginia Magazine profiles Fox Business Network reporter Peter Barnes, who writes children’s books on the side, in a recent issue.

Mondloch writes, “Around 8:30 a.m. he arrives at the office, where ‘it’s off to the races.’ This morning he is scrambling together some notes for an impromptu interview with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who will shed some light on food prices and a hotly contested farm bill. As the cameras roll, Barnes poses probing questions and listens in his usual manner, lips slightly pursed and eyebrows knit.

“Sometimes he heads over to the White House to cover a press conference or breaking news. At least once a year, he boards a press plane for an international summit meeting—a G-8 or G-20. His most thrilling sojourn took place in the fall of 2010, when he joined an entourage of reporters trailing President Obama’s flights to India and other Asian countries. He still marvels that the ten-day trip took them across the Atlantic, Europe and Asia on route to those exotic destinations, then over the Pacific on the way home — literally a trek around the world.

“While Barnes and his wife have talked about their books on a number of daytime television shows, including the ‘Today Show,’ most people never make the connection between Barnes the worldly newsman and Barnes the weaver of mouse tails, he says. In some 60 million American homes that have access to Fox Business Network, the average viewer apparently has no clue. ‘People are always shocked that it’s the same person,’ he laughs.”

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