Trish Regan - Television Career

Television Career

Regan joined CNBC from CBS News where she was a correspondent reporting for the CBS Evening News She also contributed to Face the Nation and 48 Hours Regan's focus at CBS was the U.S. economy. She reported on economic policy issues including healthcare, privatizing social security, and government pensions. Regan also reported extensively on Latin American political and economic affairs including a series on terrorist fundraising in South America. Her work on the terror connection between the Tri-Border region of South America and Islamic terrorist groups earned her an Emmy for Investigative Reporting in 2007. Additionally, Regan covered prominent National events including the Enron scandal, the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, the 2006 State of the Union address, and the three major hurricanes to hit the U.S. in 2005: Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

Previously, Regan was a correspondent for MarketWatch. In 2002, her work at CBS MarketWatch earned her The Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Under 30 Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. While at CBS MarketWatch, she contributed to CBS News and reported and anchored for the CBS-owned station in San Francisco. Prior to that, Regan was a correspondent at Bloomberg Television.

Regan’s in-depth special on the underground marijuana industry, "Marijuana Inc.: Inside America’s Pot Industry", became the most watched special in CNBC's history. According to networks advertisements for her follow-up documentary, 38 million people viewed her first special, making Regan's documentary the most watched CNBC original program ever produced. Her sequel became the network's second most highly watched program. For her reporting, Regan was nominated for a Best Documentary Emmy Award. Regan also earned a Gerald Loeb nomination for documentary team work on “Against the Tide: The Battle for New Orleans” – an investigative piece on the New Orleans levee system, post-Katrina.

Regan covered a series of global economic stories for CNBC and NBC News including the U.S. banking collapse of 2008 and the subsequent recession. In 2010, from Portugal, she reported on the European sovereign-debt crisis. At the G8 summit in Germany, she focused on U.S.–Russia relations. She has also reported on Brazil's economic boom and challenges, the potential advantages of the Canadian sub-Arctic oil sands and traveled to Bogotá, Colombia where she interviewed President Álvaro Uribe and reported from the city of Medellín for a look at emerging market investing. For CNBC, Regan also reported on the link between piracy and terrorist organizations from Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a region in South America known as the Tri-Border, considered one of the most dangerous in world. Regan departed CNBC in March 2011.

In December 2011, it was announced that Regan would be joining Bloomberg TV as the anchor of Street Smart, the daily program covering the market close from 3–5pm EST, in January 2012. She is also scheduled to anchor the network's election coverage and report documentaries for prime time programming.