General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/63

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. 63

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-063

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_063

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

Deputy Director Barry Griffiths studies the printout of an incoming news agency dispatch. Griffith is standing opposite a man sitting across the desk. Both wear office clothes. To Griffith's left there is a computer, in the far end of the room there is a television set and a book case. Under the window there is a long cabinet with telex machines on the top of it, and some papers are pegged on the wall.
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 a million-and-a-half words every 24 hours from Western and Eastern news agencies, its won 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 moving out to the 21 news desks on in-house "A" and "B" wires around the clock. Here Deputy Director Barry Griffiths studies incoming news agency copy.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, computer, man, news room, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, television