Christine Romans

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Christine Romans
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Education Iowa State University (BA)
Occupation(s) News anchor, journalist, author
SpouseEd Tobin
Children3

Christine Romans is an American broadcast journalist, author, and a Senior Business Correspondent for NBC News. She previously served as the chief business correspondent and anchor for CNN's Early Start .

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Early life

Romans is from Le Claire, Iowa. [1] [2] She graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in 1989. [3] She graduated from Iowa State University in 1993, majoring in French, journalism, and mass communication. [4] [5] She also studied French media and French literature at the Catholic University of Lyon in France during the summer of 1991. [1]

Career

Romans reported for several newspapers including the Des Moines Register and Knight-Ridder . She then served as a reporter and anchor for Reuters Television. [3] She joined CNN in 1999 and began reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. [6] She next hosted CNN's On the Money and was a reporter and substitute anchor on Lou Dobbs Tonight. [7] She also hosted Street Sweep on the defunct network CNNfn. [8] In January 2014, she was named as the new anchor for Early Start . [9] A year later, Romans published her third book titled Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials. [10]

On July 28, 2023, Romans announced her departure from CNN. That same day, it was reported she would move to NBC News. [11] On October 30, Romans was officially announced as a Senior Business Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. [12]

Personal life

She is married to Ed Tobin, and the couple have three children. [8]

Books

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