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Shibani Joshi
You just have to be the best in class. Be smarter, jump higher, to get in the game.”
Thirty-two-year-old Shibani Joshi’s path to the FBN was convoluted, but her hometown newspaper reveals early promise. Back in 1993, the Daily Oklahoman featured Joshi, then 17, as one of eight students selected to represent the state at a prestigious forum. Her plan at the time: “To study biology and business administration.” Growing up in Oklahoma City, the child of Indian immigrants, Joshi thought of television as an outlet to a more diverse world. After Harvard, she worked first at Morgan Stanley and next at CNNfn, where her production assistant responsibilities included teleprompter duty for Lou Dobbs’ Moneyline. Her experiences have helped ready her for her stint as a general assignment reporter for FBN, which aims to topple CNBC from its perch atop television business news. When Fox was hiring for the new network, Shibani showed “an interest in real business news reporting,” while many of her competitors “were simply interested in being on TV,” says Kevin Magee, executive vice president of Fox News. Nor does it hurt that Joshi is easy on the eyes; the Huffington Post recently described FBN’s on-air talent—the female side, anyway—as “a bevy of beauties.”
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