The AEA’s annual meeting in San Diego received widespread press coverage. The profession’s ongoing efforts to promote diversity were featured in The New York Times, Marketplace, and Planet Money. A discussion with Angus Deaton and Anne Case about health care and “deaths of despair” received coverage in The Washington Post, MarketWatch, The Economist magazine, and in a Times opinion piece  by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Fed policy and the general economic outlook was also a popular topic covered by the Times, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, CNBC, and Forbes. Planet Money also surveyed attendees about "the most useful" idea in economics.