Expansion of United Press originating from a modest 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 in the same league as some of the most prominent and successful news agencies including Reuters and Associated Press. The primary 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 elevated rise in popularity of news on the television, United Press proceeded the path 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 improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of this news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there were numerous changes which were incorporated in the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities beyond the arena of domestic and international news making its foray in the world of sports, entertainment, business, science and health. It also aimed to get to a wider audience and also hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also in Arabic and Spanish too.
In addition to this alteration of format United Press began 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 of 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 important information to a variety of organizations like 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 website has a very wide reach and has a web-based audience that is growing at a fast rate. It has been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this site every month and they’ve been seeing a consistent surge of these numbers.
The reason for this ever increasing reader base can be assigned to the massive amount products which this news agency offers in two formats; one that of news analysis along with the other that of news briefs. Apart 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. 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 the news sources.