Life as a Reporter
Since she has always been a student of the journalism game, the changes in the industry have not gone unrecognized by her. She talked to WWD about how much journalism has changed before all the news went from the traditional format of print to the digital world, “A lot of my work now goes out not just on TV but also on digital. And it has to, because we are busy people. How many people are home at 6:30 to sit down in the old-fashioned way and watch the way my parents watched Walter Cronkite? I mean, we know that doesn’t happen anymore. There is clearly a double standard in life, and certainly on television. In life, we are judged on our dress when we go to a wedding and your husband is wearing the same boring black suit he wears to every wedding. On TV, that’s accentuated.”

Snow does not want to get called out for not being fashionable so she is very aware and conscious of her appearance. She is not vain like her high school days as a cheerleader but she tries to to work on her appearance because of her public visibility. She understands that she not only represents herself but the network and show she works on, “I don’t know if I should admit this to this crowd but I’ve started doing Rent the Runway.”

Snow does not let the stress of looking good weight too heavily on her. She knows that she is not a model or actress but she still tries to care a little bit. The real focus for her is to break the news and interview people who the public care about. She claimed that one of her toughest interviews was with former United States President Bill Clinton. She got the chance to be the first journalist to interview him after his wife and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 presidential nomination to Barack Obama. She was brave and asked Bill Clinton about the rumors and claims that he had played the “race card” during the primaries and rallies. It was not a friendly conversation and ended up being very combative, ”It got very heated. By the end of it he was standing on my foot.” 

Snow tries to present a strong aura but even she can be broken down by sad stories, “The most difficult story I ever had to report on was the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. I arrived on the scene as state troopers were still escorting parents from the school after they had been told their child had been killed and then having to report the story over the next four days. That was probably the hardest thing I have ever had to do.”