Some news just came in.

Selected news photos are available from the UN FTP server.

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

There were news!

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

I got news, big news.

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

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.

She has to know something about what stories are available.

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

Yes, and I'll give you a story.

You probably read something about it in the papers.

These boys from the newspapers take up my time.

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.

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.

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.

Certain information centres to be headed by international staff at the D 1 or P 5 level, often supported by a P 4 or P 3 information officer.

The system will contribute to the strengthening of the Department s rapid media response capacity.

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.

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.

No news.

Got news for you.

Any news?

(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)

Obviously, there is ample room for further enhancement of the Department's public information capacity.

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.

The information provided by these officials is not binding on the journalists attending those meetings, which are held either on the initiative of the Minister or at the request of the newspapers and information media, as happens in many other States.

Public information

It should be opinion driven less news, more views.

Within one week, the Department produced a bound edition of the report, a press kit and a summary overview.

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

Although anti Semitism declined after 1982, there were some new incidents as a result of certain events that had a major impact in the media

(e) Press releases press releases concerning the Court's activities to the local, national and international press

Recapping some of the pertinent information from the annual report, he said that during the reporting period the Department had issued over 40 press releases relevant to the work of the General Assembly and the Special Committee, including the special mission to Bermuda, which had been made available to a global audience through the United Nations website.

According to the press, several candidates have declared themselves and others are expected to do so.

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 Department continues to provide press release coverage, in English and French, of all open intergovernmental meetings, as well as press briefings and conferences.

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.

My question is How many of those stories are actually going to matter in the long run?

DPI Department of Public Information DPKO Department of Peace keeping Operations