Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Goes 'On The Record'

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Goes 'On The Record'

Jim Lehrer Moderates a One-Hour Forum About the Economy and the Role of the Federal Reserve Bank With Chairman Bernanke, a Studio Audience and Online Participation -Sunday, July 26

Excerpts Will Air on The Newshour on July 27, 28 and 29, Followed by a Full Hour PBS Special Feed to Local Stations on July 29

ARLINGTON, Va., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will sit down with Jim Lehrer, anchor and executive editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, for a one-hour forum, "Bernanke On the Record." The event will be recorded on Sunday, July 26th, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to Lehrer, an invited audience of local citizens will be on hand to ask questions of the Chairman. The audience is being assembled with the help of Kansas City public television station KCPT and other local community organizations.

PBS viewers from around the country are also submitting questions via the Online NewsHour. To submit a question to Chairman Bernanke, go to: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/insider/.

The forum will be divided into three segments which will air on three consecutive nights on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The segment broadcast dates are Monday, July 27, Tuesday, July 28 and Wednesday, July 29.

PBS will also feed the complete one-hour special program to local PBS stations for broadcast on or after Wednesday, July 29, and it will also be available for viewing on the Online NewsHour Web site (http://newshour.pbs.org/).

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is seen five nights a week on more than 315 PBS stations across the country (check local listings) and is also available online, via public radio in select markets and via podcast. The program is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, in association with WETA, Washington, DC and WNET.org in New York. Corporate funding for The NewsHour is provided by Chevron and Intel, along with major funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. Additional funding for NewsHour economics coverage is provided the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Source: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

CONTACT: Anne Bell, +1-703-998-2175, abell@newshour.org, or Rob Flynn,
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Federal Reserve Board, +1-202-452-2955, Jeffrey.V.Smith@frb.gov

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