From the Great Recession to the AI boom, one reporter has been covering the stories that move markets. ABC News Chief Business, Technology, and Economics Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis joins Forecast 2027 to share her reporting on the economy.
“The View from the C-Suite: Lessons Learned from Two Decades Covering Disruption, Recessions, and Reinvention,” will feature Jarvis in conversation with ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy about what she has gleaned covering Wall Street for two decades, the disruptions of social media and AI, and current worries about inflation and the bond market.
Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who reports across Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, 20/20, and This Week. Her coverage includes the global financial crisis, the Bernard Madoff scandal, and the rise of crypto, big tech, and artificial intelligence. Before joining ABC News, she was CBS News’ Business and Economics Correspondent and spent three years at CNBC covering markets from the New York Stock Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange.
Jarvis co-created The Dropout, which detailed the rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. She also hosts the No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis podcast and is a Good Morning America Contributing Anchor.
Steven Portnoy has more than two decades of experience reporting from Washington, including seven years covering the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations from the White House briefing room. He is a past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He returned to ABC News, where he began his career in 2002, in 2023 after more than eight years at CBS News, where he was a congressional correspondent before reporting from the White House.
Portnoy commented, “There are few reporters in our business who have covered business the way Rebecca Jarvis has. She has seen it all and talked with all the players. I can’t wait to pick her brain about what’s she’s learned and what her reporting tells us about the evolving economic factors and challenges consumers and financial markets currently face.”
Join us at Forecast 2027, set for November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York City. Forecast limits seating to keep the room intimate, so secure a seat via the Forecast website. Forecast is closed to press, so these conversations will not be posted online or covered in our headlines the next morning.
Sessions include:
- Marketer and best-selling author Larry Bailin‘s keynote on digital disruption with “The Future Belongs to Those that Can Hear It Coming.”
- “Broadcast on the Docket: Power, Policy, and Pressure in Washington,” a panel on how Washington’s broadcast decisions get made, moderated by Frank Montero withNic Anderson, Joe Di Scipio, and Rick Kaplan.
- “Converged Broadcast: The Cross-Media Radio, TV, and AI Playbook,” a panel on braiding newsrooms, sales, and AI into one operation, moderated by Heidi RaphaelwithCaroline Beasley,Tanya Vea, Phil Brooks, andBrock Berry.
- Revenue leaders from Cox, Hearst, BIA, and WPP Media break down where 2027 broadcast growth is coming from and how stations can capture it through AI targeting, data-driven selling, and digital and CTV expansion.
- Lifetime Leadership Awards honoring Harvey Nagler andValari Dobson Staab, presented jointly by Radio Ink and RBR+TVBR.
- A Broadcast Leadership cocktail hour honoring Radio Ink’s 40 Most Powerful People in Radio and RBR+TVBR’s Top Broadcast Television Leaders.
About Forecast
Now in its 24th year, Forecast brings together station owners, CFOs, group executives, and Wall Street analysts for a full day of data-driven sessions on the business of radio and television. Angela Yee and Fred Toucher will MC.
