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 precisely 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 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 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 brought about a significant change in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of the news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there were numerous changes which were incorporated within the format of the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities beyond the arena 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 in Arabic and Spanish as well.
Along with 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 having 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 of becoming one of the leading providers of important 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 website carries a very wide reach and it has an online audience which is growing really fast. It’s been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this site each month and they’ve been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason behind this escalating reader base can be assigned to the massive amount products which this news agency offers in 2 formats; one that of news analysis along with the other that of news briefs. Aside 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. 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.