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 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. Though with the decline in newspaper publication because of the increased popularity of news on the television, United Press went on 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 substantial improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of this news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there have been a number of changes which were incorporated in 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. Additionally, it aimed to reach a wider audience and hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also 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 area for establishing their headquarters simply because this state was the hub of all of the policy making organizations irrespective of them being government bodies or non government bodies. It is because of 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 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 at a fast rate. It’s been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this website each month and they’ve been seeing a consistent surge of 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 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 every of these divisions. Apart 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 the news sources.
