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Date: 06/28/2011 Description: The bloggers meet with Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Judith McHale, during the tour. - State Dept Image

June 13: Twenty young, influential bloggers to demonstrate the USG's use of innovative new media tools to promote U.S. policy priorities, and to explore how both our government and groups in the private sector help activists and institutions around the world communicate effectively on the internet to advocate for positive change. Full Text»

June 27:  Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, briefs at the Washington Foreign Press Center on the "2011 Trafficking in Persons Report." Full Text» Video»

Date: 06/16/2011 Location: New York, NY Description: Joe Fraga, Executive Director, The New York Cosmos, briefs on the team's initiative to fuse international exchanges through soccer, with the Cosmos Copa tournament at the New York Foreign Press Center.  - State Dept Image

June 23: Joe Fraga, executive director of the New York Cosmos, briefs on the Cosmos Copa tournament - the team's initiative to fuse international exchanges through soccer at the New York Foreign Press Center. Full Text»

June 22:  Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), briefs at the Washington Foreign Press Center on how Republican governors are affecting their party's chances in the 2012 presidential election. Full Text» Video»

June 20:  Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs preview Secretary of State Clinton’s Upcoming Travel to Guatemala and Jamaica. Full Text» Video»


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The United States Department of State has Foreign Press Centers in Washington, D.C. and New York. The Foreign Press Centers support U.S. policies by helping foreign media cover the U.S. Their goal is to promote the depth, accuracy, and balance of foreign reporting from the U.S., by providing direct access to authoritative American information sources.

Washington Foreign Press Center - National Press Bldg., Suite 800
New York Foreign Press Center -799 UN Plaza, 10th Floor


World IPv6 Day
On June 8, the State Department will join Facebook, Akamai, and other major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight.” More»

Date: 06/03/2011 Description: Logo for World IPv6 day. © Internet Society Image
 
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