Expansion of United Press from a modest news agency to one that covers numerous areas

United Press is 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 some 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. However with the decline in newspaper publication because of the elevated popularity of news on the television, United Press went on the path 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 substantial improvement in the fortunes of United Press International.

Following the incorporation of this news agency within the umbrella of News World Communication, there have been numerous changes that were incorporated within the format in the publication. The publication began exploring opportunities past 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 also in Arabic and Spanish too.

In addition to 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 location for establishing their headquarters simply because this state was the hub of all the policy making organizations irrespective of them being government bodies or non government bodies. It is because of the exhaustive, in dept, comprehensive and qualitative information this news agency provides that it has achieved the status of becoming one of the major providers of important information to a variety of organizations like media units, business houses and several government organizations.

The news content and stories are published on a daily basis on their own active website called upi.com. This excellent website has a very wide reach and it has an online audience which 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 for this escalating reader base can be attributed to the massive amount products which this news agency offers in two formats; one that of news analysis and 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 each of those divisions. Aside from offering case specific information, the United Press news agency also has on offer a classical news format called News track that collates information from all of the news sources.