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

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.

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.

These boys from the newspapers take up my time.

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.

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

These branch offices became the United Nations information centres.

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

Some news just came in.

I saw the newsreels. I saw them.

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).

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.

That's news!

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

That's the news.

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

These events are organized by the Department at Headquarters, as well as in the field by the United Nations Information Centres and Services, which also undertake numerous special activities at the national and regional levels.

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.

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

Slim, have you seen the paper? No. What's the matter?

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

And then we took that decision We are unrolling the news.

The local press reported that the weaponry belonged to the Aidid administration.

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

When newspaper people ask me, Walter, where do you get all that 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.

DPI Department of Public Information DPKO Department of Peace keeping Operations

There were news!

These were mainly activities related to published material and information materials services.

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

Here's another one

After all this is nothing new.

I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.

DPI has continued its close coordination with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations on these same issues and is in constant contact with the public information office of the Mission itself.

I got news, big news.

After a while of reading this in the news, it just becomes news.

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

The objectives of IPS are to strengthen South South and South North flows of information and communication, and to involve in those flows actors representative of the whole of society.

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.

Take that story there, for instance.

What's new in the Quarter?

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.

The Roundtable, organized by the Department of Public Information, is open to media representatives only.

The Roundtable, organized by the Depart ment of Public Information, is open to media representatives only.

A Department of Public Information Committee examines the applications and takes decisions on whether or not to include NGOs in the annual Department of Public Information NGO Directory.