Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The WTO Newsroom

Over 3000 journalists from around the globe in Hong Kong covering this round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization. WTO has everything a reporter might be looking for, too. Computer workstations, high-speed internet, dial-up internet and wireless connections are here. The largest of the media rooms resembles NASA's Mission Control more that anything I've ever seen.
Equipped with 2 jumbotron screens, these hundreds of computer workstations and a work area, they can accomidate up to 1000 reporters on-line at the same time. Besides the massive press rooms, there are also several other smaller media rooms plus individual broadcast booths housing a variety of news agencies from Al-Jazeera to the Associated Press.

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