EIIC
European Institute for International Communication
Special Assignment:
EIIC Student Journalists Cover
the European Summit, Dec. 9-10, 1991
Approximately 30 EIIC fully accredited student journalists, under the direction of Dr. Marsha Della-Giustina, Professor Carole O'Neill and Dr. Manny Paraschos, covered the signing of the Treaty of Maastricht that created the European Union in December 1991. Our group was called the New England Press Consortium and we had agreements with several New England media to use our stories. Clockwise from top left: the summit press hall from where the world's media reported; the EIIC reporting team at work; another shift of EIIC reporters; EIIC journalist Alexia von Gültlingen reporting and EIIC's Gaston Verjans in front of the satellite truck that transmitted our news stories to Boston.
Clockwise from above left: the broadcast team of the New England Press Consortium; Professors Della Giustina and O'Neill; reporter Maria Soares; reporter Bill McCandless and the welcome of Terry Anderson (in the middle in the balcony) in Weisbaden.
An unexpected scoop:
Two days before the summit, AP's Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson was released in Lebanon after seven years of captivity and was flown to Wiesbaden, Germany, for his first post-captivity press conference. EIIC's New England Press Consortium student journalists under Dr. Della-Giustina rented a car and drove to Wiesbaden, where they got to ask questions at the press conference that was transmitted live around the world. We were the first Boston medium to have the story....
Above left: the news coverage. Above right: how it was done--logistics and preparation.
Video transcoding: Alicia Carlson.