Expansion of United Press from a modest news agency to one that covers a vast number of fields
United Press is a reputed news agency that carries with itself an experience of a hundred years. Established in 1907, this news agency was at precisely the same league as some of the most prominent and successful news agencies such as 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 elevated rise in 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 way of the company News World Communication and this activity contributed to a significant improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of the news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there have been a number of changes that were incorporated in the format of the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past the arena of domestic and international news making 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 too.
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 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 of becoming one of the major providers of critical information to a number of organizations such as media units, business houses and a lot of government organizations.
The news content and stories are published on a daily basis on their own active website called upi.com. This website carries a very wide reach and it has an online audience that 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 for this escalating reader base can be assigned 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 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 of the news sources.