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Sep 21, 2009 9:29 pm US/Eastern
Pittsburgh Making A Good Impression On Visitors
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
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About 3,000 journalists are expected to visit Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit.
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Journalists and delegates from around the world are already in Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit.
And so far, it appears the city is making a good impression.
Helga and Wolfgang Viefers are visiting from Germany.
"I like the rivers, and I like the people and what else and I like to be in America because I like America," she said.
Han Shu and Shn Shn Wan drove to Pittsburgh from China Radio International's Washington, D.C. bureau.
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh and Soldiers and Sailors Museum in Oakland were some of the first places they visited.
"And just now I [drove] around Pittsburgh university and it's a beautiful landscape," Wan said. "It's on the hilltop and I think there is a pretty good view."
They are the first of about 3,000 journalists visiting Pittsburgh this week.
Their main task is to cover the summit, but they also want to find out why Pittsburgh was chosen.
"Just like those American journalists, when they heard the news from [White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs], because we don't know that much about Pittsburgh," Wan said.
With translators and knowledgeable Pittsburghers at media welcome centers at most hotels, journalists will have easy access to facts about this region.
"We want to make it as easy as possible for them to get the Pittsburgh story, in hopes that amid everything else surrounding the summit, we'll have a chance of getting our story out," Bill Flanagan, from the Allegheny Conference, said.
Reporters can download a walking tour of Pittsburgh in 10 languages on their iPods, narrated by native speakers from Robert Morris University.
There's some early evidence the positive spin may be working.
"We've had major newspapers, wire services around world, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, that have run really terrific stories about the transformation that's gone on here in Pittsburgh over the past 30 years," Flanagan said.
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