Regan To Anchor Bloomberg Television's 'Street Smart'

Trish Regan, former anchor for CNBC and before that a correspondent with CBS, has joined Bloomberg Television.

She will anchor Street Smart, at 3 p.m.-5 p.m. weekdays from New York, beginning Jan. 9. Regan will also anchor primetime specials and serve as the business network's lead anchor on coverage of the presidential campaign.

During her tenure at CNBC, Regan covered the U.S. banking failures of 20098, the European debt crisis and other major stories. She was also a contributor to the NBC Nightly News and Today.

"Trish is an accomplished broadcast journalist and skilled reporter who has covered some of the most important global economic stories of our time," Andrew Morse, who heads Bloomberg TV U.S., said in a release. "She'll play a key role on our Bloomberg team."

John Eggerton

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