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news conference is when a group of people, typically journalists and reporters, gather to ask questions and hear answers from someone who has important information to share.
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Not until the early decades of the 20th century did presidents first start having regular
news conferences with reporters.
And took the brilliant step of putting together a student run
news conference outside their school to announce their findings.
The two executives did not appear together and each held multiple separate
news conferences about storm preparation.
At his
first news conference, following revelations about two undisclosed conversations with the Russian ambassador, he announced he would step away from any such investigation.
It first reported its members had rejected the changes, and then its president refused to answer questions at his
own news conference.
She also held
weekly news conferences and traveled around the country giving speeches and visiting poor neighborhoods.
Watch the governor and his economic brain trust offer specifics about the budget here -
full news conference (56 minutes).
The governor has already held a series
of news conferences this week to talk about major initiatives he'll include in the proposed 2016 - 17 budget.
She also blamed the governor for «our broken subway,» which experienced a delay that made her about 40 minutes late for her
first news conference.
On Monday, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council
at news conference at the Iwe Irohin House of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), declared that the workers were set for industrial action by Thursday.
At 1 p.m., At
news conferences in Albany and New York City, an hour before Silver is sentenced for corrupting his office, Common Cause / NY, Citizens Union, the League of Women Voters, NYPIRG and Reinvent Albany will urge Cuomo and state lawmakers to act on comprehensive ethics reform before the end of the session, LCA Room, Legislative Office Building, Room 130, Albany; and Foley Square, Intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.
Both Cuomo and de Blasio released conflicting information at separate
news conferences on Monday, a development that only added to the speculation that both men continue their behind - the - scenes political squabble that spilled out into public view this week.
Cuomo and Bellone had friendly relations with Mangano, appearing together
during news conferences, often for storm and snow preparations.
The Brooklyn Democrat is known for his visible presence across the state, especially when Congress is in recess, and for
holding news conferences in which no issue too small is highlighted.
In
news conferences after the incident, Sheriff Scott Israel said 12 of the people who died were found inside the school building and two were found just outside.
New Yorkers won't have to wait that long: GrowingTogetherNY, a coalition of groups allied against elements of Cuomo's budget, held its first
news conference Thursday at the Capitol, where its members announced that they too will be touring the state.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a primary night
news conference Tuesday in New York City.
At
news conference Wednesday, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, the airport's director, Bradley Livingston, and other officials said there's $ 25 million in the county's capital budget this year to begin the multi-year project.
But the Democratic gubernatorial candidate made a hasty exit from a afternoon
news conference today in Fayetteville without citing a single budget cut he favors.
Barnes & Noble today confirmed that it is not participating in Microsoft's hastily - called
news conference Monday afternoon, likely making moot rumors that the two would co-introduce a new tablet or e-reader.
Saskatchewan newspapers report: â $ œCertainly in professional, scientific and technical areas and in the mining and the manufacturing sector (the job numbers) are very strong, â $ Don Morgan, minister of advanced education and labour relations, told reporters at
news conference Friday.
While Beijing and Shenzhen have yet to unveil their final plans, major parts of them were drafted and discussed in
news conferences last year.
At a Wednesday
news conference announcing the move, DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker repeatedly said his agency would start with a safety baseline of 400 ppt safety measure, the EPA's maximum allowable level for short - term PFOA exposure, as it began its health assessment of the contamination.
Specialist Frank Masiello watches a television monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange showing a Washington
news conference by House Speaker John Boehner, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
Does that mean running for governor, he was asked by local scribes at an impromptu
news conference following his speech at the recently renamed Best Western Plus in Kingston.
A spokeswoman for Connolly declined to comment but said both men will appear at a
joint news conference on Thursday, the day before Democrats gather in Hartford to open their nominating convention.
At a hastily
called news conference on Monday afternoon, the 68 - year - old Daly announced that he had coached his last game, though he will remain a consultant to Orlando.
Stewart - Cousins at a
Capitol news conference said the bills her conference is proposing should not wait for the budget process to be completed, but instead be taken up now.
In a pair of
news conferences late Tuesday afternoon, officials from both the City of Rochester and the Rochester City School District admitted that mistakes were made in the events that led up to the death of 14 year old Trevyan Rowe.
The details of the framework were announced at a Red Room
news conference before Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan had briefed their conferences on the details.
That target was revealed by Giallorossi boss, Rudi Garcia during his team's recent
news conference ahead of their game against El Barca.
«I am taking nothing off the table,» a clearly angry Jordan said at an
afternoon news conference [on Monday, October 6, 2014].
«This is not a strike I wanted,» Emanuel told reporters at a televised
news conference Sunday night, not long after the union announced the action.
«When you come off the top of the rocket, all the fun for us spacecraft folks begins,» Robert Lockwood, TESS spacecraft program manager for Orbital ATK, the company that built the satellite for NASA, said during a prelaunch
news conference here on Sunday (April 15).
«I feel very positive about what we've been able to accomplish and feel tremendous... loyalty to the institution,» Yellen said in December at her last
news conference as Fed chief.
«It's not clear we can get substantial improvements in payrolls without some additional inflation risks,» he told his first regularly
scheduled news conference after a Fed policy - setting meeting.
Addressing news conference in Accra Friday following the grant of an application for former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, to orally examine Mr Woyome on the amount, he said the court erred in its decision on the matter.
Those were the facts, as outlined by the SEC and the National Association of Securities Dealers in a high - profile
news conference earlier this year.
With Election Day six months away, the Nassau Legislature's Republicans and Democrats jostled to claim the high ground in fighting corruption, holding dueling
news conferences yesterday.
In your research project with John Heritage, you're studying a sample of some 4,000 questions raised at presidential
news conferences from 1953 to 2000 to see whether journalists have become more adversarial toward presidents over time.
Director Ron Howard and stars Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller - Bridge and Paul Bettany gathered for the «Solo: A Star Wars Story»
news conference Saturday to answer everybody's burning questions about the upcoming blockbuster.
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