Growth of United Press from a modest news agency to one that covers numerous areas
United Press is 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 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 elevated 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 substantial improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
Following the incorporation of this news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there were numerous changes that were incorporated within the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities beyond the realm of domestic and international news and made 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 in Arabic and Spanish as well.
In addition to this change in format United Press started to expand globally and established offices in countries including 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 because of 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 critical 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 a web-based audience which is growing really fast. It has been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this website every month and they have been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason behind this escalating reader base can be assigned to the wide range of products that this news agency offers in two formats; one that of news analysis along with 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 also has on offer a classical news format called News track that collates information from all of the news sources.