Christine Romans Biography & Net Worth

Christine Romans Biography & Net Worth

Christine Romans is a renowned American journalist and television presenter who currently serves as CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent and also as the host of Early Start with Laura Jarrett on weekdays. She is the author of three books: Smart is the New Rich Money Guide for Millennials (Wiley March 2015), Smart is the New Rich: If You Can’t Afford it—Put it Down (Wiley 2010), and How to Speak Money (Wiley 2012), and won the prestigious Emmy Award for her work on the documentary “Exporting America” about outsourcing American jobs overseas and globalization. Romans is known as CNN’s summarizer-in-chief of everything related to money. She covers finance and business from the perception of American workers and owners of small businesses, translating what bailouts and budgets and economic figures mean for families. The 48-year-old TV anchor boasts of an award-winning profession in business reporting. In 2014, she toured around the country reporting for her series, entitled, “Is College Worth it.” In 2010, she co-hosted “Madoff: Secrets of a Scandal,” a special sixty minutes-long investigative report examining humiliated financier Bernard Madoff and how he committed one of the largest investor frauds ever perpetrated by an individual. Her series of reports “Living Dangerously” demonstrated the risks and precautions for about 30 percent of America’s population residing in the path of an Atlantic-coast hurricane. In “Deadly Hospitals,” she looked at how hospitals spread risky infections and what sick people can do to protect themselves.

Romans became a member of CNN Business News team in 1999, spending more than a few years reporting from the base of the New York Stock Exchange. She was the host of CNNfn‘s Street Sweep monitoring the market’s boom through the 1990s to the tragedy of the September 11 attacks. She hosted the first-ever democratic elections in the history of Iraq from CNN Center in Atlanta. Moreover, she has covered four presidential elections and four hurricanes and was part of the teams that helped CNN earn a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She was also a part of the team that earned an Alfred I. DuPont Award for the network for its coverage of the tsunami tragedy in Southeast Asia.

Christine Romans’ Early Life & Education

Romans was born in Le Claire, Iowa, United States in 1973. After completing her secondary school education at Pleasant Valley High School, she went on to attend Iowa State University from which she graduated in 1993. While attending Iowa State University, she majored in French in addition to Journalism & Mass Communication, and further improved her academic qualifications by studying French literature and French media at L’Institut Catholique de Lyon in France in the year 1991. While attending high school, Romans was physically active as she did gymnastics, played female soccer, and took dancing lessons. She stopped taking sports seriously once she enrolled in college but never stopped attending dance classes.

Broadcasting Career

Christine Romans currently serves as the anchor of CNN’s “Early Start” with John Berman. She is CNN’s chief business correspondent and the presenter of CNN’s Saturday business program “CNN Money”.  In addition, she reports on the economy, international business and politics for CNN’s morning shows. Her reporting is also featured on CNN International on a regular basis.

Romans is known as the network’s explainer-in-chief of everything money, translating complicated international economics to kitchen table finances. Her coverage focuses on the most up-to-date breaking developments in the current financial crises and what they mean to citizens of America and their money. When former President Barack Obama talked about the economic crisis and the path ahead, CNN relied on Christine Romans for her viewpoint and instant examination of the administration’s efforts to salvage the American economy. Reporting on, among other issues, the economic stimulus and its outcome on American wallets, the intricacies of the derivative markets, the AIG bailout, and the bank crisis, Romans brings a successful award-winning and honorable career in business reporting. In 2010, she co-hosted “Madoff: Secrets of a Scandal,” a special sixty minutes-long investigative report probing embarrassed financier Bernard Madoff and how he committed one of the largest investor frauds ever perpetrated by an individual. In 2009, her special series “In God We Trust: Faith & Money in America” investigated the intersection of how religious values govern the way Americans think about and spend their money.

Previously, Christine Romans served as a reporter for Moneyline and Lou Dobbs Tonight. In her various roles, the Iowa State University graduate has extensively covered immigration reform, education, homeland security, substance abuse, and American foreign policy with Latin America and China. Her series of reports “Living Dangerously” carefully illustrated the risks and precautions for the 30 percent of America’s populace living in the passageway of an Atlantic-coast hurricane. In “Deadly Hospitals,” she examined and described how hospitals spread infections and what patients can do to keep themselves protected. She has investigated the collapse of WorldCom, Enron, and numerous other corporate scams and has also reported on corruption from an investor’s point of view.

Romans joined CNN Business News in the year 1999. Among several feats, she led the network’s coverage of Iraq’s first democratic elections, contributed to CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Rita which won the network an award in 2005 and also reported during President Ford’s funeral events.

Prior to joining CNN, Romans served as a reporter for Reuters and also reported for Knight-Ridder Financial News in the trading pits of Chicago.

She is also the author of three books: Smart is the New Rich Money Guide for Millennials (Wiley March 2015), Smart is the New Rich: If You Can’t Afford it—Put it Down (Wiley 2010), and How to Speak Money (Wiley 2012).

Awards & Achievements

The 48-year-old TV anchor, Christine Romans, boasts of an award-winning profession in business reporting. In 2004, she won the prestigious Emmy award for her work on the documentary “Exporting America” about outsourcing American jobs overseas and globalization. Moreover, she has covered four presidential elections and four hurricanes, and was part of the teams that helped CNN earn a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She was also a part of the team that earned an Alfred I. DuPont Award for the network for its coverage of the tsunami tragedy in Southeast Asia. Romans was honored with a media excellence award by The National Foundation for Women Legislators for business reporting. She also received a James W. Schwartz award from the Greenlee School of Journalism in 2009.

Personal Life & Family

Intelligent, beautiful, and dedicated to her job, Christine Romans doesn’t just find time for her career but also finds time to build and maintain her family. She is a married woman who shares her matrimonial life with Ed Tobin, an editor for Reuters. Together, they’re the proud parents of three children.

Christine is a philanthropist as well. She has contributed to numerous charity organizations over the years while being primarily focused on helping underprivileged children and making monetary donations to those living in third-world countries. She is also a lover of animals and has used her reputation to urge people to adopt rescued animals rather than to buy newborns.

When she’s not busy with her work at the office, Romans likes to watch TV series and movies with her husband and children. She has revealed some of her favorite movies and series as “The Big Bang Theory”, “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, and “Sleepless in Seattle”. She also spends her holidays with her family at attractive natural locations around the world, as she is an avid traveler who has been to each continent.

Christine Romans Net Worth

The 48-year-old CNN correspondent, Christine Romans, has assembled a net worth of over $4 million from her illustrious career as a journalist and television reporter. Also as an author, the mother of three earns from the sales of her three published books. She has collected several awards and honors in her career so far, and our belief is that there’s still many more to come from this CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent.