Press Trust of India
Company type | Non-profit cooperative[1] |
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Industry | News media |
Founded | 27 August 1947 |
Headquarters | PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street, New Delhi , India[2] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Revenue | ₹1.73 billion (US$22 million)[3] (2016–17) |
Number of employees | 1,000+ (2014) |
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Website | www |
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.[4] It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 500 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees as of 1 January 2022[update], including about 400 journalists. It also has nearly 400 part-time correspondents in most of the district headquarters of the country.[5] PTI also has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres around the world. It took over the operations of the Associated Press of India from Reuters in 1948–49.[6][7] It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.[8][9][10][11]
Overview of PTI
PTI exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such as
Its current
History of PTI
Time | Event |
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1905 | Birth of Associated Press of India (API) floated by K C Roy, often called the first Indian news agency[15] |
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
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1949, 1 February | PTI begins news services, taking over operations from API but still maintains links with Reuters.[6][7] |
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'.[16] |
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
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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
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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 |
See also
- Asian News International, another major news agency based in Delhi
- Hindustan Samachar
- Samachar
- United News of India
- United Press of India
Citations
- ^ "Press Trust of India sacks 297 staff in one day / IFJ". International Federation of Journalists. 26 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Contact us". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Viveck Goenka of Indian Express elected new PTI Chairman". India Today. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIES Archived 5 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Overview of PTU". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ a b About PTI, Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ a b "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. pp. 16, 21.
- ^ Mehta, Archit (9 April 2020). "Communal attack in Bawana shared with false claim of Muslim man injecting fruits with spittle". Alt News. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "2 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Kolkata? No, Media Misreported". The Quint. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Alphonso, Anmol (22 April 2020). "PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching". www.boomlive.in. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Has the UP Govt Slashed Funds for Education? Here's a Fact Check". The Quint. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "AsiaNet – Agencies". www.asianetnews.net.
- The Tribune (Chandigarh). 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "ABP's Aveek Sarkar new PTI chairman". The Times of India. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. p. 10.
- ISBN 9781932705676.
General bibliography
- Aggarwal, S. K. (1989). Media Credibility. Mittal Publications. ISBN 9788170991571.
- Jones, Derek, ed. (2015). Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9781136798634.
- Kanung, Chitra (2001). Freedom Under Assault. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 114. ISBN 9788176482264.
- Kumar, Keval J. (2000). Mass Communication in India. Jaico Publishing House. ISBN 9788172243739.
- Mehta, D. S. (1979). Mass Communication and Journalism in India. Allied Publishers. ISBN 9788170233534.
- Sharma, Diwakar (2004). Mass Communication: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Deep and Deep Publications. ISBN 9788176295079.
External links
Media related to Press Trust of India at Wikimedia Commons