Growth of United Press originating from a small news agency to one that covers numerous fields
United Press is actually 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 including Reuters and Associated Press. The chief publication of the United Press was its afternoon newspapers which were very comprehensive and carried information from all spheres such as sports, entertainment, health, world news etc. However with the decline in newspaper publication because of the elevated popularity of news on the television, United Press proceeded the path of decline. However, by the year 2000, this news agency was bought over by the company News World Communication and this activity brought about a significant change in the fortunes of United Press International.
Following the incorporation of this news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there have been a number of changes that were incorporated within the format in 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. Additionally, it aimed to reach a wider audience and hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also in Arabic and Spanish too.
Along with this change in format United Press started to expand globally and established offices in countries such as London, Beirut, Santiago, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul with its headquarters tucked away in Washington D.C. They chose Washington as the location for establishing their headquarters simply because 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 of becoming one of the major providers of critical information to a number of organizations like media units, business houses and several government organizations.
The news content and stories are published each day on their active website called upi.com. This excellent website carries a very wide reach and it has an online 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’ve been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason for this ever increasing reader base can be attributed to the massive amount products that this news agency offers in two formats; one that of news analysis along with 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 each of those divisions. Apart from offering case specific information, the United Press news agency also has on offer a classical news format called News track that collates information from all of the news sources.