Charlie Gasparino Didn’t Go to Harvard, Couldn’t Get Job at DMN

The Tampa Tribune has a profile of Fox Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino, a guy who knows a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to business reporting. He worked at the Tribune back in the day — but he tried to get a job at the Dallas Morning News. Why didn’t they hire him? He told the Tribune: “I had been turned down by the Dallas Morning News because I didn’t have the right pedigree — a Harvard degree.” That comment, I presume, is aimed at Mssrs. Decherd and Halbreich.

5 comments

  1. Gee, I know dozens and dozens of people who work/worked at the DMN who didn’t go to Harvard. Some in management. How did THAT happen?

    @ 12:23 pm on May 3, 2010
  2. I know some who didn’t finish college. Not sure what the point is here.

    @ 1:12 pm on May 3, 2010
  3. why would you go to Harvard to take a low paying job?

    @ 3:48 pm on May 3, 2010
  4. Gasparino has a point. I got a job at the DMN and went to Northwestern. It’s the Harvard of the Midwest, you know.

    @ 7:20 pm on May 3, 2010
  5. I am a distinguished graduate (on the the six-year plan) of Arizona State University, known as “the Harvard of Tempe.”

    @ 8:53 am on May 5, 2010

Leave a Comment

* required fields