Policy Conference Attracts Record Media Turnout

By Melissa Golding
NABE Press Officer

The 2010 NABE Policy Conference attracted more media professionals than any previous policy conference over the past five years. Seventy-two media professionals from these 38 news outlets attended the conference: ABCNews.com, Associated Press, BNA's Daily Labor Report, BNA's Daily Report for Executives, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television, the Bond Buyer, C-SPAN (coverage aired on C-SPAN2, C-SPAN3, and www.c-span.org), CNBC, CNNMoney.com, Dagens Industri (Swedish Business Publication), Dow Jones, Finnish Broadcasting Company (TV), Fox Business Network, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German newspaper), Handelsblatt (German Newspaper), Kiplinger, MarketWatch, Market News International, McClatchy Newspapers, MSNBC.com, NABEtv, NHK (Japanese Television), National Mortgage News, National Public Radio, New York German Press, the New York Times, Nikkei (Japanese newswire), RTHK Hong Kong (Radio), Ras Video (still photographer), Reuters News Service (wire), Reuters Television, USA Today, Voice of America Radio, and the Wall Street Journal.

Media consolidation and budget cutting have created new relationships between news outlets, so although reporters from the above-mentioned 38 news outlets wrote and broadcast conference coverage for their respective news outlets, their coverage was also carried on other outlets. For instance, Bloomberg articles are now posted on BusinessWeek.com, and Reuters’s content is now available on cnbc.com.

C-SPAN carried the following sessions live: Sheila Bair, chairman of the FDIC; the 2010 Midterm Elections Panel moderated by Diane Swonk of Mesirow Financial featuring Charlie Cook, publisher of the Cook Political Report, and Greg Valliere of the Soleil Securities Corporation; Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf; Christina Romer, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; the Healthcare Panel moderated by Paul Hughes-Cromwick of the Altarum Institute featuring David Cutler of Harvard University and Linda Fishman of the American Hospital Association; and Jim Owens, CEO of Caterpillar. C-SPAN also taped Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans's speech for later broadcast. All of these videos are now available on nabe.com. Session and general conference coverage by NABEtv, a special service produced by Convention News Television that was sponsored by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Economic Competitiveness, is also available via this hyperlink.  

March Policy Survey of Great Interest to Media

The semiannual NABE Policy Survey was released on Monday, March 8, and attracted much media interest. NABE President Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University, and NABE Policy Survey Chair Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, did a number of media interviews in support of the survey.

Duncan spoke with ABC News Radio (national broadcast service), the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, CNN Radio, and Voice of America Radio. Reaser did a live interview with CNBC Economic Correspondent Steve Liesman from the Policy Conference hotel on Monday, March 8, and also did a live interview with FOX Business Network from the Washington Bureau that day. In addition, she did an embargoed interview with CBS Radio that was broadcast March 8 on CBS Radio affiliates nationwide. The survey was also covered by a variety of other media outlets, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Bloomberg.

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