Christine Romans Biography
Christine Romans is a CNN correspondent and anchor, as well as an author. She has worked for Reuters and Knight Ridder Financial News in the past. She is CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent, and she also hosts Early Start from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET, as well as the weekend business program “Your Money.”
How old is Christine Romans? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 31 January 2021. She was born in 1971 in Iowa, United States.
Christine Romans Family – Education
Romans is originally from Le Claire, Iowa. She graduated from Pleasant Valley High School and went on to Iowa State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1993. Christine majored in French in addition to Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University, and in the summer of 1991, she studied French media and French literature at L’Institut Catholique de Lyon in France.
Is Christine Romans of CNN married? – Husband
She is married to Ed Tobin, a Reuters editor, and the couple has three children.
Christine Romans Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
How long have Christine Romans been with CNN?
In addition, Romans contributes to CNN’s morning shows by reporting on the economy, politics, and international business. Her reporting is also featured on CNN International on a regular basis. Romans is known as CNN’s “money explainer-in-chief,” translating complicated international finance to everyday economics. She has written two books, How to Speak Money and Smart is the New Rich.
The coverage of Romans focuses on the most recent breaking developments in the current economic crises and what they mean for Americans and their money. When President Obama speaks about the economic crisis and the road ahead, CNN relies on Christine Romans for her insight and real-time analysis of the administration’s efforts to save the American economy. Romans brings an award-winning career in business reporting, reporting on topics such as the bank crisis, the AIG bailout, the complexities of derivative markets, and the economic stimulus and its impact on American wallets.
In 2010, Romans co-hosted “Madoff: Secrets of a Scandal,” a one-hour special investigation into disgraced financier Bernard Madoff and how he perpetrated one of the largest investor frauds ever committed by an individual. In 2009, her special “In God We Trust: Faith & Money in America” looked at how our religious values influence how we think about and spend money.
Romans previously worked as a correspondent for Moneyline and Lou Dobbs Tonight. She has extensively covered immigration reform, substance abuse, homeland security, American foreign policy with China and Latin America, and education in her various roles. Her “Living Dangerously” series of reports illustrated the risks and precautions for the nearly 30 percent of Americans who live in the path of an Atlantic-coast hurricane. She investigated how hospitals spread dangerous infections and what patients can do to protect themselves in “Deadly Hospitals.”
She has investigated the collapses of Enron and WorldCom, as well as numerous other corporate scams, and has reported on corruption from the investor’s perspective. Romans joined CNN Business News in 1999 and spent several years reporting from the New York Stock Exchange floor. Romans was the anchor of CNNfn’s Street Sweep, which followed the market’s boom through the late 1990s to the economy’s uphill battle following the September 11 attacks. She also oversaw CNN’s coverage of Iraq’s first democratic elections from the CNN Center in Atlanta. She contributed to CNN’s award-winning coverage of Hurricane Rita in 2005 and covered President Ford’s funeral. She won an Emmy in 2004 for her work on “Exporting America,” a documentary about the effects of globalization on American workers.
Romans was a member of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody Award for Hurricane Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami disaster. She received the National Foundation for Women Legislators’ media excellence award for business reporting, and the Greenlee School of Journalism named her the 2009 James W. Schwartz award recipient. Prior to joining CNN, she worked in Chicago’s futures trading pits for Reuters and Knight-Ridder Financial News.