Merrie Spaeth

Spaeth, founder of



Spaeth Communications, Inc., "served as a White House Fellow and was assigned to FBI Director



William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director’s staff. From the FBI, she served two years at the Federal Trade Commission as director of public affairs, and in 1983, President Ronald Reagan named her director of media relations at the White House. Merrie introduced satellite communications to the White House, and the electronic White House News Service. One newspaper headline said she 'took the White House into the Space Age.' [2]

"She has worked in every area of print and electronic media. She’s been a radio and television talk show host, a reporter and writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News, and a producer for ABC’s “20/20.” Family Weekly (later USA Today Sunday Magazine) for several years featured her weekly column on personal finance and investing called “Your Finances.” Her first book Marketplace Communication (MasterMedia) is a collection of her commentaries on “Marketplace,” the daily business show on public radio stations across the country. Today, she writes a weekly column for UPI on communication challenges facing businesses, and she is a regular commentator on public radio and television.