Growth of United Press from a small news agency to one that addresses numerous areas
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 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 increased rise in 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 contributed to a significant change in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of this news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there were a number of changes that were incorporated within the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past the realm 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 also hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also in Arabic and Spanish as well.
Along with this change in format United Press started 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 simply because this state was the hub of all the policy making organizations irrespective 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 major 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 each day on their own active website called upi.com. This excellent website carries a very wide reach and has an online audience that is growing at a fast rate. It has 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 ever increasing reader base could be assigned to the wide range of products which this news agency offers in two 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 these divisions. Aside from offering case specific information, the United Press news agency also has on offer a more traditional news format called News track that collates information from all the news sources.
