{"id":862,"date":"2017-06-21T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine?p=862"},"modified":"2017-06-21T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:33:57","slug":"on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cO<\/span>ur stocks editor, Dave Wilson, is with us\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s typically my cue when I go on Bloomberg Radio eight times a day, every weekday, to deliver a report, share the day\u2019s market drivers, or talk about what the markets are up to.<\/p>\n

When I was playing records, broadcasting sports events, and covering the 1978 midterm elections for WMCX in college, I never imagined that someday I\u2019d be back on the air as my full-time job. But after focusing on print journalism for more than 30 years, I found my way back to radio in 2011 and have been broadcasting my reports ever since.<\/p>\n

I go on the air for the first time before the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange open each day, so that\u2019s when I cover the moves people need to know about first. I also pick a stock of the day\u2014some company you\u2019ve probably never heard of but that\u2019s having a big move. I\u2019ll tell you what the company does, how its shares have traded, and what the motivation is behind the latest move. It\u2019s something I\u2019m sure people aren\u2019t hearing anywhere else.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also my chart of the day, in which I highlight key developments in U.S. financial markets, business, and the economy. I\u2019ve been doing it for print since 2008, and talking about charts is what drove my reintroduction to radio.<\/p>\n

You might think I feel pressure needing to be radio-ready every hour. I don\u2019t see it that way. It actually builds a nice amount of structure into my workday. I never have to wonder what I\u2019ll be doing. I have to drink a lot of water to keep my voice in shape, but I still can be a little hoarse by the end of the day. And no, I can\u2019t go out for a two-hour lunch with you\u2014but I\u2019ve been brown-bagging it for years anyway.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing I\u2019ve learned from my work is that you have to adapt. I went from being a print reporter for a small-town newspaper to editing and reporting at Dow Jones, and I\u2019ve been in a variety of roles at Bloomberg. Those shifts are what have kept me going and kept work interesting\u2014and now being on the radio feels like I\u2019m having a whole second career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A print journalist finds new life by returning to his radio roots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":46,\"y\":27}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-back"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"The Back","issue":"Summer 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}