General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/64

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #1 / No. 64

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-064

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_064

Date

1970

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Slot Editor William de Armond receives incoming copy from Western News Agencies. He is wearing office clothes, and is sitting at a desk with a row of printers. The window behind him reflects the other wall of the room with two clocks reading 10 minutes past 12 and 10 minutes past 6. In the room there is a waste paper bag.

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich - The Central News Department at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is an internal news agency serving as clients the news desks of the 21 different language services within the Radio. The Central News Room takes in more than 1,500,000 words every 24 hours from Western and Eastern news agencies, its own bureaus in major capitals of the world, Eastern radio and television. Editors boil this down into a running file of just over 100,000 words daily that move out to the 21 news desks on in-house "A" and "B" wires around the clock. Here slot man William de Armond looks over incoming copy from Western news agencies before distributing it for editing and rewriting to news room editors.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

clock, Cold War, man, news room, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty