United Press is actually 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 of all spheres such as sports, entertainment, health, world news etc. However with the decline in newspaper publication because of the elevated popularity of news on the television, United Press went on the road 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 substantial change in the fortunes of United Press International.
After the incorporation of this 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 past the realm of domestic and international news and made its foray in 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 too.
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 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 of the policy making organizations regardless of them being government bodies or non government bodies. It is due to the exhaustive, in dept, comprehensive and qualitative information this news agency provides that it has achieved the status to become one of the leading 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 active website called upi.com. This website has a very wide reach and has an online audience that is growing really fast. It has been estimated that almost over 2.8 people visit this site each month and they have been seeing a consistent surge in these numbers.
The reason for this escalating reader base can 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. Aside 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 of the news sources.
