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• No business like business

  Christine Romans is on the air at CNN.

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  The College of Business and Christine Romans didn't get along too well while she was at ISU.
  
  "I crashed and burned twice in economics. I think I dropped every business class I took," said the 1993 journalism graduate and former editor of the Iowa State Daily. "My father told me to stay with it, but I kept thinking, 'I don't have to know this.'"
  
  Sometimes fathers know best.
  
  Shortly after graduating, Romans may have wished she would have stuck with macro and microeconomics.
  
  She was quickly forced to learn about the stock market, gross domestic products, and the prime rate as a reporter with Knight-Ridder Financial News in Chicago.
  
  Now a correspondent for CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Romans is frequently called to report a variety of financial news – everything from the trend of U.S. jobs moving overseas to CEO compensation and conflicts of interest in company boards to the growth of electronic trading.
  
  Romans joined CNN Business News in 1999 after stints with the Des Moines Register, Reuters, and Knight-Ridder. During her tenure with CNN, she has served as an anchor for CNNfn's "Street Sweep," reporting daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
  
  There she tracked the market's boom through the late '90s and the downfall after Sept. 11. Along the way, she interviewed hundreds of guests on-air, from the mundane to the famous – like rock star Jon Bon Jovi and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
  
  "I like telling a story," Romans said. "I've learned so much (about the business world) that I can tell a good business story.
  
  "Some people want to be a television reporter," she said. "I want to not only tell the story, but also find the story. That's what a good reporter does."
  
  Still based in New York City, Romans frequently commutes to CNN headquarters in Atlanta where she anchors the weekend news and gives 3 1/2-minute news updates every half hour.

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