an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program, The art, technique, or process of narrating, The presentation of the positions of a politician or political party in the media, as by press releases, speeches, and interviews, adjective_ Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story, Of or relating to narration, Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous