Growth of United Press originating from a modest news agency to one that addresses numerous areas
United Press is a reputed news agency that carries with itself an experience of a century. Established in 1907, this news agency was at the same league as some of the most prominent and successful news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. The primary publication of the United Press was its afternoon newspapers that were very comprehensive and carried information from all spheres such as sports, entertainment, health, world news etc. Though with the decline in newspaper publication because of the increased popularity of news on the television, United Press went on the road of decline. However, from the year 2000, this news agency was bought over by way of the company News World Communication and this activity contributed to a significant change in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of the news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there have been a number of changes which were incorporated within the format of the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past the arena of domestic and international news and made its foray in the world of sports, entertainment, business, science and health. It also aimed to get to a wider audience and hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also in Arabic and Spanish too.
In addition to this change in format United Press began to expand globally and established offices in countries including London, Beirut, Santiago, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul having its headquarters tucked away in Washington D.C. They chose Washington as the area for establishing their headquarters as this state was the hub of all the policy making organizations regardless of them being government bodies or non government bodies. It is due to the exhaustive, in dept, comprehensive and qualitative information this news agency provides that it has achieved the status to become one of the major providers of critical information to a number of organizations such as media units, business houses and several government organizations.
The news content and stories are published on a daily basis on their active website called upi.com. This website has a very wide reach and it has a web-based audience that is growing at a fast rate. It’s been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this site each month and they have been seeing a consistent surge of these numbers.
The reason for this escalating reader base can be attributed to the wide range of products which this news agency offers in two formats; one that of news analysis and the other that of news briefs. Aside from this in addition they function as a sports news agency, a business news agency, a science and health news agency etc, providing detailed reports and sector analysis of every of these divisions. Apart from offering case specific information, the United Press news agency has on offer a classical news format called News track that collates information from all the news sources.