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Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, Negro desk editor of the Office of War Information (OWI), discusses a letter from one of the 240 Negro editors to which he sends war news from Washington, with William Clark and Harriette Easterlin, his assistants

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, Negro desk editor o...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, sees that Negro papers across the country get their share of war news. Tale of a City, an OWI pamphlet on Nazi treatment of Poland, which Poston and Roessner are discussing here, was distributed through the Negro desk to 240 papers, and 50,000 copies went to Negro organizations

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elm...

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Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six days a week on stories for both domestic and overseas use. In the course of a week most of them turn out a list of assignments as long as a cub reporter's. Examples of the variety of stories done: "Roundup on wartime transportation," "Industrial feeding program started in war plants," "U.S. Army heroes of Greek descent," "How to get your tires recapped." Stories for domestic release go to the chief of the general news desk. Ken Stewart, chief of the foreign desk, reviews all overseas assignments

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six da...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the domestic news desk concentrates on getting releases out to meet deadlines of its press room's seventy-five to one hundred correspondents. After they reach the Office of War Imformation, each of the fifty or more daily releases are passed on to Jack Durham by Hy Aronstam, news desk chief, standing at phone. Durham sees that releases agree with policies of all government agencies involved, prevents contradictory statements from going out. Pipe-lighting Joe Polakoff copy reads and edits releases

Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the dome...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from all government agencies to 240 Negro papers each week, Ted Poston, editor of the OWI's Negro desk in Washington, selects picture sequences of special interest to the Negro press. He is shown working with photographer Roger Smith and assistant William Clark, and Harriette Easterlin

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of th...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the ge...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chief of the OWI news bureau, talks over a program for a series of releases on inflation with Herb Plummer, standing at his right, Jack Durham and Joe Polakoff. When a series of releases is planned, the news bureau schedules them, often including plans for releases for rural papers, trade papers, house organs, etc., as well as the daily press

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chie...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the domestic news desk concentrates on getting releases out to meet deadlines of its press room's seventy-five to one hundred correspondents. After they reach the Office of War Imformation, each of the fifty or more daily releases are passed on to Jack Durham by Hy Aronstam, news desk chief, standing at phone. Durham sees that releases agree with policies of all government agencies involved, prevents contradictory statements from going out. Pipe-lighting Joe Polakoff copy reads and edits releases

Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the dome...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, Negro desk editor of the Office of War Information (OWI), discusses a letter from one of the 240 Negro editors to which he sends war news from Washington, with William Clark and Harriette Easterlin, his assistants

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, Negro desk editor o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI. It is arranged much the same way as the city room of a daily newspaper. Here, war news of the world is disseminated. In the foreground, are editors' desks handling such special services as trade press, women's activities, and campaigns. The news desk is in the background

Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI. It is arranged much the same way as the city room of a daily newspaper. Here, war news of the world is disseminated. In the foreground, are editors' desks handling such special services as trade press, women's activities, and campaigns. The news desk is in the background

Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenneth Stewart heads the OWI staff which gathers news of wartime Washington for use by the Overseas Division in New York and San Francisco. News sent from Washington, queries answered here, find their way into shortwave broadcasts to occupied lands; pamphlets and leaflets dropped on hostile towns and villages; cables carrying news of America to our friends and allies. Achilles Sakell talks over a script for the Balkan countries with Stewart

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenn...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenneth Stewart heads the OWI staff which gathers news of wartime Washington for use by the Overseas Division in New York and San Francisco. News sent from Washington, queries answered here, find their way into shortwave broadcasts to occupied lands; pamphlets and leaflets dropped on hostile towns and villages; cables carrying news of America to our friends and allies. Achilles Sakell talks over a script for the Balkan countries with Stewart

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenn...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the primary task of the News Bureau of the OWI. This is the teletype room of OWI--the nerve center of the world news of the war. These instruments connect OWI offices all over the world

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the p...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of th...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the ge...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six days a week on stories for both domestic and overseas use. In the course of a week most of them turn out a list of assignments as long as a cub reporter's. Examples of the variety of stories done: "Roundup on wartime transportation," "Industrial feeding program started in war plants," "U.S. Army heroes of Greek descent," "How to get your tires recapped." Stories for domestic release go to the chief of the general news desk. Ken Stewart, chief of the foreign desk, reviews all overseas assignments

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six da...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the primary task of the News Bureau of the OWI. This is the teletype room of OWI--the nerve center of the world news of the war. These instruments connect OWI offices all over the world

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the p...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chief of the OWI news bureau, talks over a program for a series of releases on inflation with Herb Plummer, standing at his right, Jack Durham and Joe Polakoff. When a series of releases is planned, the news bureau schedules them, often including plans for releases for rural papers, trade papers, house organs, etc., as well as the daily press

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chie...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from all government agencies to 240 Negro papers each week, Ted Poston, editor of the OWI's Negro desk in Washington, selects picture sequences of special interest to the Negro press. He is shown working with photographer Roger Smith and assistant William Clark, and Harriette Easterlin

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, sees that Negro papers across the country get their share of war news. Tale of a City, an OWI pamphlet on Nazi treatment of Poland, which Poston and Roessner are discussing here, was distributed through the Negro desk to 240 papers, and 50,000 copies went to Negro organizations

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elm...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More