Live Q&A with Eamon Javers '94, CNBC Washington Reporter
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | 5:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Event
Join us for an opportunity to learn what it's like to be a White House Correspondent during this crisis, and the impact from both a political and economic standpoint - both short-term and long-term. This conversation will be moderated by Alison King Haley '84, P'23 NBC 10 Boston Political Reporter.
Eamon Javers '94
Javers joined CNBC in June 2010 as a Washington reporter based at the bureau in the nation’s capital. He appears on CNBC’s Business Day programming. Previously, Javers was a White House reporter for Politico, where he covered the intersection of Wall Street and Washington. He conducted investigations of the administration’s financial bailouts and economic stimulus efforts, broke news about the presidency of Barack Obama and authored trend stories on Washington. Prior to joining Politico, Javers was a Washington correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine writing extensively about Washington lobbying, including the Jack Abramoff scandal and unearthed previously unknown incidents of corporate espionage. He also was an on-air correspondent for CNBC, where he covered the intersection of business and politics. Javers’ articles have appeared in Fortune, Money, Congressional Quarterly, and Slate.com. He began his career at The Hill, a weekly newspaper (and website) covering Congress.
Javers is author of the book Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage, which revealed a never-before-reported CIA policy allowing active-duty officers to moonlight in the private sector.He has appeared as an analyst on each of the major broadcast networks, all of the major cable television news networks, the BBC and National Public Radio. In 2014, Javers was named a finalist in the Gerald Loeb Awards explanatory category for his coverage of how market-moving financial data is released. In 2006, Javers received an Award of Distinction in investigative journalism from the Medill School of Journalism.
Alison King Haley '84, P'23
Alison King Haley '84, P'23 joined NBC 10 Boston and necn in 1995 as the station's first Connecticut Bureau Chief. Nine months later she moved to Boston to become the station's Political Reporter. Since then, Alison has covered six presidential races and a wide range of New England political stories, including a documentary on the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
Prior to joining NBC 10 Boston and necn, she was a reporter at WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. She has also worked as an anchor/reporter at News 12 in Norwalk, Connecticut and WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Alison worked on programming for ABC Sports during the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary and at ABC's Good Morning America. She has earned a number of awards for her work including three Emmys, two Gracies, several Associated Press Awards, and she was a contributing member to necn's 2000 Dupont award. Alison was the reporter and producer of the May, 2007 documentary, "The Education of Deval Patrick, The First 100 Days," which exclusively chronicled the first tumultuous months of the administration of the Massachusetts governor.
She has traveled around the world, from Bosnia with the Massachusetts National Guard in 1997 following the war to a Trade Mission to Israel with Gov. Patrick. A career highlight occurred in 2014 when Alison traveled to Washington for a behind-the-scenes visit to the White House, including a one-on-one interview with President Obama.
She holds an undergraduate degree from Colgate University, and a master's degree from New York University's School of Journalism. Alison is a native of Orange, Connecticut. She and her husband live in Boston with their two children, including Pierce '23.
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