Information is so vital to a participatory democracy.

Alisa Miller shares the news about the news

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.

Some news just came in.

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

These branch offices became the United Nations information centres.

To that effect, and in an attempt to correct distortions by partisan media, UNOCI set up a news desk to collect, collate and process news items on developments across the country that can be shared with the national and international media.

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

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

That would be quite a coup, bringing in your first story wrapped around an assassin.

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.

It had also implemented a new, very liberal, press code.

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.

The two journalists in question are still working for press institutions and enjoy all their professional and legal rights.

Selected news photos are available from the UN FTP server.

Concern was expressed by some delegations that news from developing countries did not receive adequate media coverage.

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We are creating the technology that is going to create the new shared experience, which will create the new world.

United Nations efforts to promote democratization through support for free and independent media have formed an essential part of the Organization s work in the area of public information.

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

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More information on the centres services can be obtained by contacting the Chief, Information Centres Service (room S 1060A, ext. 30798).

Because that's another part of a press agent's life.

As part of the Department s global network, the United Nations information centres and services are planning global activities for the launch and throughout the Year.

The analysis of the Department's work with the media, specifically the impact of public information and communications campaigns, has been another area in which the Department of Public Information has been working to establish more systematic assessment.

Under section 26 (Communications and public information), the Secretary General, as part of the overall reform of the Organization, proposed to transform the Department of Public Information into an Office of Communications and Public Information, to be headed by an Under Secretary General.

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.

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As an initial step, it strengthened its monitoring of media around the world, making use of new technologies and intensified efforts by United Nations information centres, to provide senior officials with press materials and regular analyses.

We go to press in 20 minutes.

23.16 The second objective of the subprogramme is to develop a timely and more effective news gathering and delivery system to be built around the concept of a multimedia central news desk with stronger news gathering and timely distribution capacity tied to the global daily news cycle.

35. Underlines the continued importance for the Department of Public Information of using traditional and mass media channels to disseminate information on the United Nations, and encourages the Department of Public Information to take full advantage of recent developments in information technologies, such as the Internet, to improve, in a cost effective manner, the dissemination of information on the United Nations, taking into account the linguistic diversity of the Organization

32. Underlines the continued importance for the Department of Public Information of using traditional and mass media channels to disseminate information on the United Nations, and encourages the Department of Public Information to take full advantage of recent developments in information technologies, such as the Internet, to improve, in a cost effective manner, the dissemination of information on the United Nations, taking into account the linguistic diversity of the Organization

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 conference press kit, issued in English and French, was also distributed widely through the United Nations information centres.

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