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Press Trust of India
Indian news agency
Indian news agency
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | The Press Trust of India Ltd. |
| logo | Press Trust of India logo.svg |
| image | Press Trust of India (PTI) head office in New Delhi 03.jpg |
| image_caption | PTI Head Office on Parliament Street, New Delhi. |
| type | Non-profit cooperative |
| industry | News media |
| founded | |
| founder | |
| hq_location | PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street |
| hq_location_city | New Delhi |
| hq_location_country | India |
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| area_served | Worldwide |
| key_people | |
| production_year | |
| revenue | |
| revenue_year | 2016–17-18 |
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| owner | |
| members_year | |
| num_employees | 1,000+ |
| num_employees_year | 2014 |
| divisions | |
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| website |
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees , including about 400 journalists. It also has nearly 400 part-time correspondents in most of the district headquarters of the country. PTI also has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres around the world. It was incorporated in Madras in 1947 with The Hindu's proprietor, Kasturi Srinivasan, as its Founding Chairman. It took over the operations of the Associated Press of India from Reuters in 1948–49. It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.
Overview of PTI
PTI exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such as Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times and Bloomberg L.P. Major Indian subscribers of PTI include The Hindu, The Times of India, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Statesman, The Tribune, News 18, NDTV, India Today, the All India Radio, Doordarshan, and The Wire. PTI has offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, New York City, and Washington D.C.
Its current chairman is Aveek Sarkar. He is also the vice chairman of ABP group.
History of PTI
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1905 | Birth of Associated Press of India (API) floated by K C Roy, often called the first Indian news agency |
| 1919 | Reuters takes over operations of API but still uses API credit line |
| 1945 | API registered as a private limited Indian company wholly owned by Reuters |
| 1947, 27 August | Press Trust of India incorporated in Madras, The Hindu's Kasturi Srinivasan becomes founding chairman. |
| 1949, 1 February | PTI begins news services, taking over operations from API but still maintains links with Reuters. |
| 1953 | PTI becomes a free agent, independent of Reuters |
| 1976 | PTI Economic Service is launched |
| 1976, February | PTI, UNI, Samachar Bharati, and Hindustan Samachar merge under pressure during emergency to become 'Samachar'. |
| 1978, April | PTI and the other three news agencies go back to their original units to restart independent news operations |
| 1980, July | PTI Feature Service launched |
| 1981, October | PTI Science Service launched |
| 1982, November | PTI launches Scan, on-screen news display service |
| 1984 | PTI service launched for subscribers in United States |
| 1985 | Computerisation of news operations starts PTI service launched for subscribers in UK |
| 1986, February | PTI-TV launched |
| 1986, April | PTI-Bhasha launched, making it bi-lingual, a concept started by Samachar Bharati |
| 1986, August | Experimental broadcast of news and pictures via Insat-IB begins, Computer system made fully operational |
| 1987, August | Stockscan I launched |
| 1987, October | PTI photo service launched |
| 1992, August | PTI Mag launched |
| 1993, August | PTI Graphics service launched |
| 1995, March | PTI launches StockScan II |
| 1996, February | PTI invests for the first time in a foreign registered Company, Asia Pulse, which provides an on-line data bank on economic opportunities in Asian countries |
| 1997, December | PTI introduces photo-dial up facility |
| 1999, March | PTI celebrates Golden Jubilee. PTI goes on Internet |
| 2003, September | PTI launches internet delivery of its news and photo services |
| 2007, July | PTI KU-Band VSAT system for delivery of its news and photo services launched |
| 2010, March | PTI launches NewsView for delivery of its news (.txt and .xml) and photo services |
Citations
General bibliography
References
- (26 January 2019). "Press Trust of India sacks 297 staff in one day / IFJ".
- "Contact us".
- "About PTI".
- (7 September 2017). "Viveck Goenka of Indian Express elected new PTI Chairman".
- link. (5 June 2009)
- Sterling, Christopher H.. (2009). "Encyclopedia of Journalism". SAGE.
- "Overview of PTU". Press Trust of India.
- [http://www.ptinews.com/aboutpti/aboutus.aspx About PTI], Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
- (1953). "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation". UNESCO.
- Mehta, Archit. (9 April 2020). "Communal attack in Bawana shared with false claim of Muslim man injecting fruits with spittle".
- (14 February 2020). "2 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Kolkata? No, Media Misreported".
- Alphonso, Anmol. (22 April 2020). "PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching".
- (19 July 2017). "Has the UP Govt Slashed Funds for Education? Here's a Fact Check".
- "Press Trust of India".
- (31 August 2020). "Aveek Sarkar is new PTI Chairman". [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)]].
- (31 August 2020). "ABP's Aveek Sarkar new PTI chairman". [[The Times of India]].
- (1953). "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation". UNESCO.
- Shrivastava, K. M.. (2007). "News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet". Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
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