article_snippet.sent: Over the course of the eight-day round of talks, negotiators, their delegations, their security details and reporters were confined primarily to the immediate area around the five-star Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel, which played host to This week's talks on an Iranian nuclear deal framework.
article_snippet.sent: More than 600 reporters were credentialed to cover the talks this week.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, the traveling press corps covering the foreign ministers were given coveted red badges, allowing coveted red badges access to the hotel, where the talks took place.
article_snippet.sent: While these journalists had a bit more access to officials, these journalists were usually cordoned off inside a couple of claustrophobic media rooms and barred access to most of the building, including the hotel's reception desk, the first-floor restrooms and the two-Michelin-star restaurant's entrees, costing 200 francs or more.
article_snippet.sent: Many journalists found refuge in the more comfortable downstairs bar, a shorter walk from the cameras and satellite trucks used around the clock by television reporters on a rolling deadline.
article_snippet.sent: In the closed-off wings of the Beau-Rivage, the pace of meetings was frantic as different subsets of delegates gathered in ornate conference rooms.
article_snippet.sent: As news began to get out, one European reporter ran frantically into the media area at the hotel, urging everyone to listen.
article_snippet.sent: one European reporter message:
article_snippet.sent: And with that, the room devolved into chaos as journalists ran for the doors.