Press Conferences

(noun)

Usually used by organisations or individuals when a major event has occurred e.g. crises like the collapse of Northern Rock Bank, mergers, appeals, political announcements etc. Press kits or information packs are usually handed out at these events.

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Examples of Press Conferences in the following topics:

  • Types of Public Relations

    • Common activities include speaking at conferences, winning industry awards, working with the press, and employee communication.
    • Examples of PR are publicity, press releases, press conferences, interviews, and events.
    • Common activities include speaking at conferences, winning industry awards, working with the press, and employee communication.
    • Press Conferences - Usually used by organisations or individuals when a major event has occurred e.g. crises like the collapse of Northern Rock Bank, mergers, appeals, political announcements etc.
    • Discuss the major activities of PR; including publicity, press releases, press conferences and events

  • Informing the Public

    • Traditional mass media approaches include issuing press releases and coordinating staged events; more modern approaches include reaching out to prospective constituents through Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and YouTube channels.
    • Press conferences are one way in which politicians can engage journalists in spin, or interpreting an issue or event in the favor of their political party.

  • The Paris Peace Conference

    • The Paris Peace Conference determined the terms of peace after World War I between the victorious Allies and defeated Central Powers.
    • While the conference should have been considered a victory for Wilson, whose envisioned League of Nations was established, the U.S.
    • Germany and Communist Russia were not invited to attend negotiations at the conference, but numerous other nations sent delegations, each with a different agenda.
    • During this period, Wilson became less trustful of the press and stopped holding press conferences, preferring to use his propaganda unit, the Committee for Public Information.
    • Analyze the contentious negotiations between the U.S., Britain, and France at the Paris Peace Conference.

  • The "New World Order"

    • Gorbachev's initial formulation was wide-ranging and idealistic, but his ability to press for it was severely limited by the internal crisis of the Soviet system.
    • The Malta Conference collected these various expectations, and they were fleshed out in more detail by the press.
    • The Malta Conference on December 2–3, 1989 reinvigorated discussion of the new world order.
    • Various new concepts arose in the press as elements on the new order.
    • Initial agreement by the Soviets to allow action against Saddam highlighted this linkage in the press.

  • The Tehran Conference

    • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
    • It closely followed the Cairo Conference which had taken place on 22–26 November 1943, and preceded the 1945 Yalta and Potsdam conferences.
    • The conference was to convene at 16:00 on 28 November 1943.
    • The leaders then turned to the conditions under which the Western Allies would open a new front by invading northern France (Operation Overlord), as Stalin had pressed them to do since 1941.
    • Turkey's president conferred with Roosevelt and Churchill at the Cairo Conference in November 1943, and promised to enter the war when it was fully armed.

  • The Yalta Conference

    • The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D.
    • The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
    • Yalta was the second of three wartime conferences among the Big Three.
    • The Yalta conference was a crucial turning point in the Cold War.
    • Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin during the Yalta Conference.

  • Wertsch - Biography

    • "Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind" (Harvard University Press, 1985) "Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action" (Harvard University Press, 1991); "Mind as Action" (Oxford University Press, 1998) "Voices of Collective Remembering" (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
    • Wertsch also organized an international conference on "Negotiating a New National Narrative in Georgia" at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center in August 2005.

  • References

    • Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    • Paper presented at the ASCILITE conference.
    • New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Convened in 1945, the Yalta Conference brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss the postwar reorganization of Europe.
    • The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference, was held February 4–11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
    • It was one of the three major wartime meetings of Allies Powers, together with the Tehran Conference in 1943 and the Potsdam Conference in July/August 1945.
    • Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland).
    • Analyze the controversies of the Yalta Conference, and the individual agendas of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

  • References

    • Workshop on Virtual Learning Environments of the EUN Conference: Learning in the New Millenium: Building New Education Strategies for Schools Retrieved October 12, 2005, from http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/publicat/dil-papers-2/Dil.7.5.18.pdf
    • Experiments in group decision-making: Communication process and outcome in face-to-face versus computerized conferences.
    • Paper presented at the New Learning Environments (RIBA HEDQF Conference), London.
    • Paper presented at the IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT '84, London, England.
    • Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.