86 Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners presumption of innocence, and to gain an understanding of how the public perceives the functioning of the justice system. Many OSCE field operations have press and public information officers, who follow the media and disseminate the news monitored to staff. Support staff within the monitoring team may also be charged with such a responsibility, since international staff may not speak local languages. In OSCE programmes, focal points for reviewing media reports have alerted colleagues to interesting developments and translated selected articles, as requested. Although most programmes make use of media reports, they often have no system in place to archive them in a searchable manner. Hence, retrieving an interesting article or the transcript of an audio/television broadcast later may be difficult. Programme managers should, therefore, consider establishing a system to record and archive articles in the press and on the television, radio and Internet, so they can be searched and accessed, even after substantial time has passed.131 131  Also see Chapter 5.3, “Systems to record other types of information”.

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