Growth of United Press from a small news agency to one that covers numerous areas
United Press is actually a reputed news agency that carries with itself an experience of a hundred years. Established in 1907, this news agency was in the same league as many of the most prominent and successful news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. The chief publication of the United Press was its afternoon newspapers that were very comprehensive and carried information of 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 went on the road of decline. However, by the year 2000, this news agency was bought over by the company News World Communication and this activity contributed to a significant improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
Following the incorporation of this news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there were numerous changes that were incorporated in the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities beyond the arena of domestic and international news and made its foray into the world of sports, entertainment, business, science and health. Additionally, it aimed to get to a wider audience and also hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but in Arabic and Spanish as well.
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 location for establishing their headquarters as this state was the hub of all of the policy making organizations regardless of them being government bodies or non government bodies. It is because of the exhaustive, in dept, comprehensive and qualitative information that this news agency provides that it has achieved the status of becoming one of the leading providers of important 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 excellent website has a very wide reach and it has a web-based audience which is growing at a fast rate. It has 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 could be attributed to the massive amount products that this news agency offers in 2 formats; one that of news analysis along with the other that of news briefs. Aside from this they also 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 those divisions. Aside 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 the news sources.