As a financial reporter for CNNfn.com in New York, I wrote a regular column covering personal finance, mutual funds, IRAs, hedge funds and other financial news related to retirement and long-term savings. CNNfn later became CNNMoney. 

Journalism for me began in upstate NY in the tiny newsroom of country music station WRWD 107.3-FM. In the late 1980s, owner Bud Walker, a Harvard grad and apple farm owner, knew what he was doing investing in the then booming country music faze coupling that with a first-rate news team giving live reports on the top of every hour. I was the newbie on board learning from some of the best voices in the Hudson Valley. 

We spliced tape with a razor blade editing reports on a reel-to-reel and as I attended press conferences, I arrived carrying my mic with the WRWD cube prominently displayed.

That was just the beginning of my radio career that led to local news coverage at the following stations: WGY, WGNY, WPTR and WVOS. Later, I served a stint with the Associated Press in Albany, NY doing my duty covering the overnight shift at the helm of the print and broadcast desks for the entire upstate region.

Norman Vincent Peale Obit
Albany, NY
CBS News
December 24, 1993
runtime: 0:59

WGY-AM Newscast
Schenectady, NY
October 31, 1993
runtime: 1:19

Blizzard Babies
Albany, NY
CBS News
1993
runtime: 0:54