CNN Profiles – Christine Romans – Anchor and Chief Business Correspondent – CNN

Christine Romans is CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent and anchor of Early Start, weekdays from 5-6am ET. She won an Emmy award for her work on the CNN series “Exporting America” about globalization and outsourcing American jobs overseas, and is author of three books: Smart is the New Rich: If You Can’t Afford it—Put it Down (Wiley 2010), How to Speak Money (Wiley 2012), and Smart is the New Rich Money Guide for Millennials (Wiley March 2015).

Romans is known as CNN’s explainer-in-chief of all things money, distilling complex economic stories and issues down to discussions that are accessible around the kitchen table. As Chief Business Correspondent, Romans covers business and finance from the perspective of American workers and small business owners, translating what budgets and bailouts and economic data mean for families. Romans brings an award-winning career in business reporting and has interviewed the titans of finance and entertainment including JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Disney CEO Bob Iger, Dolly Parton, Martha Stewart, Bill Gates, and many others. In recent years, she has provided clear-eyed reporting on massive global economic changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, seismic shifts around how and where the workforce operates, and the pandemic’s ramifications on education. She’s also covered the scandals of crypto, disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, the financial crisis and more.

As an anchor, Romans has covered the biggest stories from the past 25 years including devastating hurricanes and droughts, America’s gun violence epidemic, five presidential elections, and has been nominated for several Emmy Awards for international reporting on the rise of ISIS and the Arab Spring. She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. Romans has also reported on safety and health crises in America, illustrating the risks to Americans living in the path of Atlantic-coast hurricanes and examining the dangers of hospital-borne infections.

Romans joined CNN Business News from Reuters in 1999, spending several years reporting on the opening bell from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Romans anchored on CNN’s financial network tracking the market’s boom through the late 1990s to tragedy of Sept. 11 attacks. The National Foundation for Women Legislators has honored her with its media excellence award for business reporting and she received the highest honor from Iowa State University’s Green School of Journalism and Communication, her alma mater.