Athanassios Kokkalakis, head of press for the police, said a suicide note had been handed to the press by the man's daughter but did not confirm what it said.
The organisation's head of press, Florian Westphal, admitted they had never faced a challenge quite like this: "First we have to make sure that we preserve the original records, " he told me.
In truth, Mr Brown helped to bring down the wrath of the press on his own head: the vehemence of political journalism in recent years has been fuelled by the cack-handedness of politicians, and in some cases their greed and depravity.
The head of the press department was speechless with astonishment and said that he could not help.
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The press itself will try to head off such actions by pledging restraint.
"They were announcing that we had lost our jobs while she has holding a press conference at the Pier Head in Liverpool, " said Mr Bennett, who was a union official at the plant.
The Chilean press says that as the former head of the army, he will be given a military funeral.
And press reports have speculated that the head of Honeywell Michael Bonsignore will be forced to resign after the announcement.
After my stories are edited and sent on The Associated Press wire, I like to head out to the course to get a feel for how the day went.
When contact was made with Harrison, journalists were invited to put questions to the pair and the atmosphere became more cordial than is normally the case at head-to-head pre-fight press conferences.
The question then is - can a parliamentary majority be formed to defeat the prime minister or will he manage to persuade the press to change its proposals to head off that threat?
The First Minister Carwyn Jones confronted the issue head on at his monthly press conference this morning.
But it was Newsnight where he landed in 2008, replacing Peter Barron who had left to head up Google's press department.
Real have lost three of their past five games and the Spanish press was quick in calling for the head of Chilean Pellegrini.
Speaking at a press conference, he also accused the head of the Independent Election Commission of being in league with the Karzai campaign and working actively to support the incumbent.
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Within days, the head of Britain's press watchdog, Conservative ex-minister Lord Wakeham, stepped aside to answer questions about his links with the company, for which he was a non-executive director.
Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent to then Democratic Party head Ron Brown's flying the flag at half staff over party headquarters and attending services when his counterpart, Lee Atwater, died young of a brain tumor?
"The talks ended successfully for Gazprom and Gazprom is completely satisfied, " Chief Executive Alexei Miller said, according to The Associated Press, as he and Oleksiy Ivchenko , head of Ukraine's Naftogaz , announced the five-year contract.
And so, really, this is really building up a head of steam here in the press and in the public, but is putting a lot of pressure on Tony Blair and his government to really start to resolve it and to get those 15 personnel home to Britain.
The festival is like a swan -- all elegance and beauty above the water as the Angelinas, Gwyneths and Mischas reward the photographic phalanx with a dazzling dress and a sequined smile -- and beneath the waterline there is a flailing and scurrying of limbs as press and publicists beat each other over the head with whatever weapons they can muster.
Speculation on his replacement centers on four men: civil service chief Lee Ek Tieng, Public Service Commission head Andrew Chew, chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Lim Kim San and S. R.
You know, I just -- uhhh - I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet.
Mr. Lin, the newly elected village-committee head, said his government would continue to press ahead with efforts to reclaim land that villagers say was taken illegally.
At a press conference later in the evening, Richard Deslauriers, head of the Boston office of the FBI, said that his agency had taken over the investigation.
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Before the team announced Johnson's release, Miami head coach Joe Philbin said in a Sunday press conference that he planned to "speak with Chad directly" about the situation.
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There is pushback for the Justice Department seizure of Associated Press phone records and then, of course, the head of the IRS was ousted because the agency reportedly targeted Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny.
It was in fact Mr Blair, and the prime minister's strangely powerful press spokesman, Alastair Campbell, who lopped off his head when they tired of trying to get a straight story out of him about Mr Hinduja.
There's also the challenge of producing a stunt that will actually shock people in a time when "so many hours of television are taken up with people doing insane things on reality shows, " says Terry Press, a former marketing consultant and current co-head of CBS Films.
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"I'm very realistic, " Giles Morgan, the Global Head of Sponsorship and Events for HSBC told the UK Press Association.
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