Webinar on reporting on inflation and the economy is next week

The Council on Foreign Relations is inviting journalists to attend a webinar on reporting on inflation and the U.S. economy.

The webinar will be held on Tuesday, Sept 13, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, CFR fellow for international political economy, will discuss global factors and trends contributing to inflation in the United States, along with Justin Backover, business and policy reporter at WFMZ-TV 69 in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, who will discuss framing stories on this subject for local communities.

The webinar series host is Carla Anne Robbins, adjunct senior fellow at CFR and former deputy editorial page editor at the New York Times. A question-and-answer session will follow their remarks. Please note that the webinar will be on the record.

We will send you the meeting access instructions prior to the event. This invitation is transferable but limited to print and broadcast journalists at local outlets. If you have colleagues who wish to register, they should email their name, professional title, and media affiliation to localjournalists@cfr.org.

To register, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.