By: E&P Staff President Bush will be meeting the media again next week -- but in a far different setting than his rare primetime televised press conference on Tuesday.
The Associated Press is finalizing plans for a 1 p.m. speech by President Bush at its sold-out annual luncheon on Wednesday in the Regency Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington. A security-sweep of the room will be completed before guests may enter.
More than 1,000 newspaper editors, publishers, reporters and executives will be gathering at the hotel next week as part of the collaborative American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and Newspaper Association of America (NAA) conventions.
Earlier that day at the hotel the AP Annual Meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. and lasts until 11 a.m. Chairman of the AP Board of Directors Burl Osborne will address board matters and introduce new board members. AP President and CEO Tom Curley, who took office last June 1, will discuss the evolving AP.
A new segment, produced by Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll, will focus on global terrorism, and will feature a live satellite interview and AP journalists who cover the Arab world, intelligence and national security, and the White House.
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