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Jane Wells to retire from CNBC after 26 years

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CNBC’s Los Angeles-based correspondent Jane Wells is retiring from the financial news channel after nearly three decades.

Wells announced her impending retirement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, where she has posted tens of thousands of updates to her more than 113,000 followers since 2008.

Her time on X is eclipsed by her 26-year career at CNBC, where she worked on enterprise stories from the news channel and its associated online platforms, including her recurring series “Strange Success.”

During her time at CNBC, she also served as a fill-in talk show host for talk radio station KFI (640 AM) and founded her own talent and production firm, Wells Media.

Two years ago, Wells also founded her own Substack newsletter called “Wells $treet,” where she covers “business with a dash of snark — even rich people can be dumb, amirite?”

Her other TV experience include reporting roles at various local broadcast stations across the country, including KTLA (Channel 5) and KTTV (Channel 11, Fox) in Los Angeles, WTVJ (Channel 6, NBC) in Miami and KOB-TV (Channel 4, NBC) in Albuquerque.

She won a Peabody Award in 1992 and a DuPont Award that same year for her coverage of the trial of Los Angeles police officers connected to the beating of Rodney King. She has earned several regional Emmy Awards throughout her TV career, as well as the Press Club and UPI Awards.

CNBC is owned by Comcast’s NBC Universal.

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