Expansion of United Press from a modest news agency to one that covers a vast number of fields
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 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. Though 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 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 that were incorporated in the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past the arena of domestic and international news making its foray in 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 in Arabic and Spanish too.
Along with this alteration of 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 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 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 own active website called upi.com. This excellent website has 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 website every month and they’ve been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason behind this ever increasing reader base could be assigned to the wide range of products that this news agency offers in 2 formats; one that of news analysis and the other that of news briefs. Apart 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. Aside from offering case specific information, the United Press news agency has on offer a classical news format called News track that collates information from all of the news sources.