Rebecca Quick

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Becky Quick

Becky Quick, 2006-05-17
Born July 18, 1972 (1972-07-18) (age 35)
Birth place Flag of the United States Indiana
Circumstances
Title CNBC's Squawk Box co-anchor
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Becky Quick (b. July 18, 1972) is a business news co-anchor on the CNBC television program Squawk Box (6-9am ET). Prior to joining CNBC in 2001, Quick was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

As a child she moved from state to state including Indiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, chasing the oil boom with her father (who is a geologist), mother, and three younger brothers.

[edit] Education

Born as Rebecca Quick and originally from Indiana, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1993.

As an undergraduate, Quick was awarded the "Times Mirror Fellowship" at Rutgers' Journalism Resources Institute. She was editor-in-chief of The Daily Targum, Rutgers' student newspaper.

[edit] Wall Street Journal

Quick is a seven-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the Wall Street beat for CNBC as part of the network’s partnership with Dow Jones.

Prior to joining CNBC in February 2001, Quick spent three years covering the retail and e-commerce beat at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, she covered various Internet issues, ranging from online privacy to domain-name disputes, for the newspaper.

Quick also played a role in the launch of The Wall Street Journal Online in April 1996 and was the site’s International News Editor, overseeing foreign affairs coverage.

Prior to that, Quick worked at the overseas copy desk of The Wall Street Journal, as copy editor, copyreader, and research assistant.

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