Press Conference

Definition: Press Conference

Press Conference

Noun

1. A conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity.

Domain	Definition
Law	A presentation of information to a group of reporters. Press conferences are frequently held in Room 1190 of the Capitol, the Governor's press room, available to members on a reservation basis (445-4571). (references)
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Synonym: Press Conference

Synonym: news conference (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Press Conference

English words defined with "press conference": backgrounder. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Press Conference (1956)
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Domain	Title
Books	Publicity - How to: Write a Press Release, Prepare a Press Kit, Run a Press Conference, Write a Letter to the Editor, Organize a Media List (How To) (reference) Acoustic Particle Velocity Sensors: Design, Performance & Applications (Aip Press Conference Proceedings Series Number 368) (reference) (more book examples)
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	A man responds to a question at a press conference standing at a lecturn, while 2 photographers take his picture. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Here Dr. David Sencer is addressing media personnel at a press conference on Legionnaire's Disease in August, 1976. Credit: CDC.
	Press conference on Legionnaire's disease held at CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. David Sencer, Director, CDC, at podium. Credit: CDC.		Brown and Glenn on Flight Deck Press Conference. Credit: NASA.
	NASA Press Conference Regarding Vostok 1 Flight. Credit: NASA.		Dr. Francis P. Shepard, the "father of marine geology," discussing scientific findings of the International Indian Ocean Expedition on board the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER at a press conference in Colombo, Ceylon. Looking on were Dr. Robert Dietz, an early pioneer in plate tectonic theory, and Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Holds a press conference at the Hotel Excelsior, in Naples, Italy, circa 21 July 1951, shortly before his death. Credit: NAVY.		Describes his submarine's successful third war patrol, during a press conference at Pearl Harbor, circa mid-February 1943. He is holding a rough chart of what appears to be a small part of the northern New Guinea coast. On the wall at right are charts of western New Guinea and of the Iron Bottom Sound area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Credit: NAVY.
	Truman press conference. Credit: Library of Congress.		National Capital]. Press conference at White Hous. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		As in the U.S., it is not advisable to call a press conference unless something newsworthy is to be announced. (references)
Children	Hungary	In 1999 the Minister of Education and the parliamentary Ombudsman for Minority Rights announced at a press conference that there is segregation in the country's educational system. (references)
Civil Liberties	Cote d'Ivoire	In July the Government granted an FM radio frequency to Voice of America (VOA), which is expected to begin retransmission operations in 2002. In October the Government shut down Radio Youpougon for 8 days and fined the station $750 (551,250 CFA francs); the penalty was imposed because the station broadcast a press conference held by former President Bedie following his return from self-imposed exile in France. (references)
	Bangladesh	Some examinees of Sadat University College protested their expulsion from the examination at a press conference at the Press Club at which the police beat attending journalists. (references)
Economic History	Guinea	The opposition has officially come out against the referendum, but has yet to coordinate any actions against it other than the occasional press conference and press release. (references)
	Sudan	On April 5, 1993, the three dissident rebel factions announced a coalition of their groups called SPLA United at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya. (references)
Human Rights	India	The two persons confessed to the killing at a press conference that was organized by the police. (references)
Minorities	Russia	On April 20, activists in Rostov Velikiy picketed the proposed site for the construction of a Jehovah's Witnesses center, proclaiming their opposition to "totalitarian cults." In March the head of the local department of the Ministry of Justice and other local officials held a press conference at Nizhniy Novgorod's city hall in which they called for noncooperation with such groups as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Moonies, and the Scientologists. (references)
	Azerbaijan	An article published in a local daily in February criticized Western pressure on religious issues and the President's decision to register nontraditional evangelical faiths in late 1999. During a March 2000 opposition Civil Solidarity Party press conference, participants claimed that missionary activity undermined the country's morals and that certain missionaries operated in the political interests of foreign countries. (references)
	Georgia	On January 22, Mkalavishvili broke up a Jehovah's Witnesses press conference. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	On April 12, authorities arrested Alfred Taban, the publisher of the Khartoum Monitor, a leading southern-oriented English daily newspaper, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent in the country at a press conference and detained him for 1 week at army headquarters. (references)
Political Rights	Uganda	On June 30, President Museveni stated in a press conference that the Movement had grown stronger in this latest round of elections. (references)
	Morocco	After the polls had closed, Interior Minister Midaoui reported in a nationally televised press conference that various political parties had engaged in vote-buying and fraud. (references)
Women	Taiwan	Several of the alleged victim's coworkers held a press conference to demand action. (references)
Worker Rights	Pakistan	A survey conducted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan published in June 1999 noted that there are approximately 4,000 children working in auto workshops in the Mardan district of the NWFP. The report stated that most of the children were between the ages of 3 and 8. During a press conference in February 2000, the president of the Punjab Laborers Front stated that 100,000 children between the ages of 5 and 12 years were working in more than 4,500 brick kilns in Punjab. (references)
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Expression using "press conference": the press conference. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "press conference"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		konferencë shtypi (news conference). (various references)

Arabic		‏مؤتمر صحفي (news conference). (various references)

Bulgarian		пресконференция. (various references)

Chinese		記者會 , 記者招待會 . (various references)

Czech		tisková konference. (various references)

French		conférence de presse. (various references)

German		pressekonferenz. (various references)

Greek		συνέντευξη τύπου. (various references)

Hebrew		מסבת עתו� אים (news conference). (various references)

Hungarian		sajtókonferencia (news conference), sajtótájékoztató (news conference). (various references)

Italian		conferenza stampa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		記者会見 , プレート電流 (placement test, plain, plain soda, plain yoghurt, plane, planing, plate current, play, play ball, playback, playboy, player, playgirl, playground, play-mode, pray, prayer, precious, pre-incubation, preschool, prescoring, president, press, press campaign, press center, press club, press release, pressed ham, prestige, presto, prey, progressive, pro-Olympic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		プレスカンファレンス , きしゃかいけ�". (various references)

Pig Latin		esspray onferencecay

Portuguese		imprensa coletiva (news conference). (various references)

Romanian		conferinţã de presã. (various references)

Russian		пресс-конференция (news conference, press-conference). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		konferencija za štampu (news conference). (various references)

Spanish		conferencia de prensa. (various references)

Swedish		presskonferens (news conference). (various references)

Turkish		basın toplantısı (news conference, the press conference). (various references)

Turkmen		pres-konferentisiяa (r). (various references)

Vietnamese		cuộc họp báo (news conference). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-f-n-n-o-p-r-r-s-s"
	-3 letters: conferrences.
	-4 letters: conferences, conferrence, preferences.
	-5 letters: conference, ferrocenes, precensors, preference, prescreens, reenforces, references, senescence.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 73 73 43 6F 6E 66 65 72 65 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0073 0043 006F 006E 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
press conference	31
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Press Conference

Definition: Press Conference