Growth of United Press originating from a small 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 precisely the same league as many of the most prominent and successful news agencies including Reuters and Associated Press. The chief publication of the United Press was its afternoon newspapers which were very comprehensive and carried information of 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 proceeded the road of decline. However, by the year 2000, this news agency was bought over by way of the company News World Communication and this activity brought about a significant improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
Following the incorporation of the news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there were numerous changes which were incorporated in the format of the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past the arena of domestic and international news making its foray into the world of sports, entertainment, business, science and health. It also aimed to reach a wider audience and hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but in Arabic and Spanish as well.
In addition to this alteration of 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 location 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 that this news agency provides that it has achieved the status to become one of the leading providers of important information to a number of organizations like media units, business houses and a lot of government organizations.
The news content and stories are published on a daily basis on their active website called upi.com. This excellent website has a very wide reach and has a web-based audience which is growing really fast. It’s been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this website each month and they’ve been seeing a consistent surge of these numbers.
The reason behind 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 more traditional news format called News track that collates information from all the news sources.