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Thirty students and alumni gathered in early April at New York Athletic Club to spend time together and listen to CNN Headline News business correspondent Carrie Lee ’89 talk about her life at Lafayette and journey to her current job.
Students attending were English majors Jen Gsell ’04 (Rumson, N.J.), Barbara Woodfin ’05 (Mendon, Mass.), Sarah Yates ’03 (Hopkins, Minn.), Kate McGovern ’03 (Dunstable, Mass.), Morgan Albus ’03 (New Canaan, Conn.), Stephanie McCarter ’03 (Shrewsbury, N.J), and Jacqueline Byrne ’03 (Old Lyme, Conn.). McCarter and Byrne also are majoring in art.
Lee discussed how she started her job search as an economics and business graduate with a minor in English, struggling to find jobs that she desired before earning a master’s in journalism from New York University in 1995. She also talked about her various positions, why she took them, and how she obtained them: New York Times Op-Ed Page editorial assistant, Financial World Magazine staff writer, SmartMoney Magazine reporter/researcher, The Wall Street Journal Online Edition staff reporter, CNBC reporter, and finally, CNN Headline News business correspondent, reporting on market action and consumer and economic news from the NASDAQ MarketSite since December 2001.
After the talk, Lee fielded questions and then spoke informally with students for a half-hour. Students and alumni also networked at the event.
Lee is coauthor of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition’s Guide to Online Investing, published by Crown Publishers, New York, in 2000. She received the Sid Gross Investigative Reporting Award from NYU in 1995. For more on Lee, see the feature article on the Lafayette alumni web site.