Growth of United Press originating from a modest news agency to one that covers a vast number of areas
United Press is a reputed news agency that carries with itself an experience of a century. Established in 1907, this news agency was at precisely the same league as many 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. However with the decline in newspaper publication because of the increased rise in popularity of news on the television, United Press proceeded the road of decline. However, from the year 2000, this news agency was bought over by the company News World Communication and this activity brought about 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 have been a number of changes which were incorporated within the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities beyond the arena of domestic and international news and made 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 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 with its headquarters tucked away in Washington D.C. They chose Washington as the area for establishing their headquarters as 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 variety of organizations such as media units, business houses and a lot of government organizations.
The news content and stories are published each day on their active website called upi.com. This excellent website carries a very wide reach and it has an online audience which is growing at a fast rate. It has been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this site every month and they have been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason for this ever increasing reader base can 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 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 has on offer a more traditional news format called News track that collates information from all the news sources.