International News Media Flock to 50th Annual Meeting

By Melissa Golding
NABE Press Officer

NABE’s 50th Annual Meeting was a great success by many standards, and it attracted much media attention. The combination of an extraordinary program of speakers and topics, a terrific hotel location (the JW Marriott is right next to the National Press Club), and NABE’s media outreach efforts attracted journalists from many of the world’s leading business and financial news outlets. Eighty-five reporters from 58 outlets attended and covered the events, beginning on Saturday evening, Oct. 4, when Dr. Jeffrey Sachs held a press conference attended by journalists from the BBC, ABC News, Marketplace Radio, Dagens Industri (a daily Swedish business publication), and Nikkei (Japan) prior to his speech at the National Press Club.

Although some reporters attended just one speech, many others stayed on to cover large portions of the program. Tom Keene of Bloomberg Radio and Kathleen Hays of Bloomberg Television produced their Monday, Oct. 6, and Tuesday, Oct. 7, editions of their On the Economy programs on-site; and Steve Liesman of CNBC and Peter Barnes of Fox Business Channel broadcast several live segments on these days as well. On Monday, C-SPAN broadcast the entire morning program as well as Sheila Bair’s and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick’s speeches live and returned on Tuesday to tape Ben Bernanke’s speech for broadcast on Tuesday afternoon.

Larry Summers, Edmund Phelps, Paul Krugman, Chris Varvares, Robert Dugger, Martin Neil Baily, William Poole, Ed Lazear, and Michael Mussa made themselves available for press conferences, which were well attended by reporters; and other speakers and meeting attendees did a wide variety of media interviews throughout the meeting.  The media outlets in attendance were: ABC News, American Banker, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), the Associated Press (wire service), Associated Press Television, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television, the Bond Buyer, the British Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNSNews.com, C-SPAN, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (television), Carta Economica Regional (Mexico), China Business News, China Radio International, Congress Daily, Congressional Quarterly, Cox News Service, Dagens Industri (Sweden), Daily Labor Report, Daily Report for Executives, Dow Jones Newswires, Feature Story News (an international television and radio syndication service), Fox Business Channel, Gannett News Service, Getty Images, the Globalist, ITN-Channel 4 News (London, UK), Kiplinger, Marketplace Radio, McClatchy Newspapers, Medill News Service (Northwestern University School of Journalism), Money Magazine, MarketWatch, Multifamily Executive Magazine, MSNBC.com, NHK (Japanese television), National Mortgage News, the New York Times, Newsweek, Nikkei, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, Phoenix TV of Hong Kong, Reuters, Roll Call/Congress Now, Tax Notes, Thomson Reuters, Tokyo Shimbun (Japan), Tokyo Broadcasting System International, USA Today, Voice of America Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, and WorldTribune.com.

October 2008 NABE Outlook Survey Widely Covered

The October 2008 Industry Survey, released under an embargo that lifted at 9:30am EDT on Monday, Oct. 6, was widely covered by the news media. Then NABE President-Elect Chris Varvares was interviewed about it by numerous outlets, including CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, ABC Radio (national broadcast service), CBS Radio (national broadcast service), WCBS Radio (New York City’s CBS Radio affiliate), the Westwood One Radio Network, the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, Associated Press Radio, Biz Radio Network (Houston-Dallas-Fort Worth), and PBS’s Nightly Business Report. NABE’s outgoing president, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, was interviewed about the survey on CNN Radio.

Other outlets that have produced coverage of the survey thus far include AHN, Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, Cox News Service, Dow Jones Newswires, FinFacts Ireland, MSNBC.com, MarketWatch, Smartmoney.com, Voice of America Radio, and the Wall Street Journal.