United Press is actually a reputed news agency that carries with itself an experience of a century. 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 primary 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 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 this news agency under the umbrella of News World Communication, there were a number of changes that were incorporated in 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 get to a wider audience and also hence began filing its news articles nit just in English but also in Arabic and Spanish too.
Along with this alteration of format United Press started 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 area for establishing their headquarters as this state was the hub of all 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 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 each day on their own active website called upi.com. This excellent 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 of these numbers.
The reason behind this ever increasing reader base could 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. 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 those divisions. Aside 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.