Editing Committee on Public Information (section)

===Organizational structure===
During its lifetime, the organization had over twenty bureaus and divisions, with commissioner's offices in nine foreign countries.<ref name = "Image2">{{cite book| last =Jackall| first =Robert|author2=Janice M Hirota| year =2003| title =Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy| publisher =[[University of Chicago Press]]| isbn =978-0226389172| page = 14}}</ref>

Both a News Division and a Films Division were established to help get out the war message. The CPI's daily newspaper, called the ''Official Bulletin'', began at eight pages and grew to 32. It was distributed to every newspaper, post office, government office, and military base.<ref>Fleming, ''The Illusion of Victory,'' pp. 118-119.</ref> Stories were designed to report positive news. For example, the CPI promoted an image of well-equipped US troops preparing to face the Germans that were belied by the conditions visiting Congressmen reported.<ref>Fleming, ''The Illusion of Victory,'' pg. 173.</ref> The CPI released three feature-length films: ''Pershing's Crusaders'' (May 1918), ''America's Answer (to the Hun)'' (August 1918), ''Under Four Flags'' (November 1918). They were unsophisticated attempts to impress the viewer with snippets of footage from the front, far less sensational than the "crudely fantastical" output of Hollywood in the same period.<ref>Thomas Doherty, ''Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II'' (NY: Columbia University Press, 1999), 89-91. Hollywood's films "served to discredit not only the portrayal of war on screen but the whole enterprise of cinematic propaganda." Hollywood titles included ''Escaping the Hun'', ''To Hell with the Kaiser!'', and ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin''.</ref>

To reach those Americans who might not read newspapers, attend meetings or watch movies, Creel created the Division of Pictorial Publicity.<ref name="gov">{{Cite web|title=The Most Famous Poster|author=[[Library of Congress]]|website=[[Library of Congress]] |url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130143112/https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html |access-date=2007-01-02|archive-date=2009-01-30 }}</ref> 
The Division produced 1438 designs for propaganda posters, cards buttons and cartoons in addition to 20000 ''lantern pictures'' (slides) to be used with the speeches.<ref>[[George Creel|Creel, George]] (1920). ''How We Advertised America''. New York & London: [[Harper & Brothers Publishers]]. p. 7. {{OCLC|1540684}}.</ref> [[Charles Dana Gibson]] was America's most popular illustrator {{spaced ndash}} and an ardent supporter of the war. When Creel asked him to assemble a group of artists to help design posters for the government, Gibson was more than eager to help. Famous illustrators such as [[James Montgomery Flagg]], [[Joseph Pennell]], [[Louis D. Fancher]], and [[N. C. Wyeth]] were brought together to produce some of World War I's most lasting images.