Some news just came in.

In others, national information officers will be deployed, as the most senior Department of Public Information staff in that location.

My point is this In the long run, some news stories are more important than others.

Think you could dig up some news in Europe? I'd be very happy to try, sir.

You probably read something about it in the papers.

These boys from the newspapers take up my time.

When we analyzed all the news stories and removed just one story, here's how the world looked.

And so he started clustering it by category, and then he started using it, and then his friends started using it.

Selected news photos are available from the UN FTP server.

I wondered whether you were still up. I have some news!

85. The following are a few of the main activities undertaken by selected Centres and Services from January 1995 to August 1996.

The Centre apos s Director was invited to participate in several seminars.

(iii) Press releases, press conferences media strategies and press releases, kits interviews and briefings in support of the meetings of the UNEP administered and selected other global and regional multilateral environmental agreements (20)

Wherever applicable, the conversion of existing information assistant posts to the national information officer level in centres that will no longer be headed by an internationally recruited staff member, would enhance the effectiveness of those offices.

80. UNIS covers all public sessions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub Commission and the treaty bodies, providing detailed press releases which form the basis of much media reporting of these meetings.

Public information

Now, headline writers had a field day with our studies.

Freedom of the press, which was widely touted as a basic democratic principle, was not a license for a group of Western controlled media to manipulate and manage information.

The press always has been...

It made a lot of news in America, and it angered some people also.

75. Several of the panellists were also individually interviewed by the media.

DPI Department of Public Information DPKO Department of Peace keeping Operations

There were news!

These are organized by the Department of Public Information at Headquarters, and the United Nations information centres and services undertake such activities at the national and local levels to publicize United Nations human rights work.

46. Takes note of the efforts by some United Nations information centres to establish their own web pages in local languages, and, in this respect, encourages the Department of Public Information to provide resources and technical facilities, in particular to United Nations information centres whose web pages are not yet operational, to develop web pages in the respective local languages in their host countries

The Section produces a weekly DPI NGO Link with selected news and information on recent material available at the Department of Public Information NGO Resource Centre.

I got news, big news.

These publications are distributed in official and non official United Nations languages to the media and other redisseminators through the network of 68 United Nations UNICs and UNISs, and 8 United Nations Offices, as well as other channels worldwide.

I've been reading these old news stories on the Mob, back to Prohibition.

58. These materials, as well as press releases and United Nations documents, are distributed electronically by DPI to the network of Information Centres and Services and are posted on the United Nations Website on the Internet (http www.un.org).

A newsreel.

One was the launching of its quarterly newsletter Network News.

Since many UNICs and UNISs are located in countries where indigenous people live, they will also be asked to involve, whenever possible, indigenous people in the planning process of their activities.

Areas of work in the field of information that attracted attention included the enhancement of the activities of the United Nations information centres and the provision of information on peacekeeping operations.

You're gonna hear some ugly talk about this in school.

Second, it had to consider whether the stories would attract the interest of the media the Department could always explain why something was important for the world to know, but if it failed to convince a journalist that the story was worth writing or broadcasting, then it was wasting its time.

Both to maximize impact and in the interest of speed, United Nations information centres and services, as well as selected journalists, were provided via electronic mail, facsimile or the Internet with the embargoed press materials we had prepared, and with the report itself.

She has to know something about what stories are available.

With Deutsche Welle, BBC World Service and Insight News Television, among others, it has organized television news feature coverage missions to several United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.

The Department lacked the resources to replace obsolete technology in some of the information centres equipped with 10 year old computers its resources had been cut in the previous two budget cycles.

Here's another one

Those changes must be commensurate with the aspirations and concerns of the Member States with regard to the definition of United Nations information goals, in order to arrive at an information policy that was in keeping with the spirit of the times and consistent with countries' need for reliable, objective information.

Another delegation, speaking on behalf of a group, commended the Department for its efforts to reflect linguistic diversity in the information it produced and in that context appreciated its press releases in both working languages and encouraged their dissemination over the Internet.

(b) A news writer reader to produce and present news segments

For Human Rights Day, UNIC prepared a special press kit which was distributed among the media and local NGOs.