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The Press Trust of India Ltd.
Company typeNon-profitcooperative[1]
IndustryNews media
Founded27 August 1947;76 years ago(1947-08-27)
HeadquartersPTI Building, 4, Parliament Street,
New Delhi
,
India[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
RevenueIncrease₹1.73 billion(US$21 million)[3](2016–17-18)
Number of employees
1,000+ (2014)
Divisions
  • PTI Bhasha
  • PTI Photo
  • PTI Graphics
Websitewww.ptinews.com

The Press Trust of India Ltd.,commonly known asPTI,is the largestnews agencyinIndia.[4]It is headquartered inNew Delhiand is a nonprofitcooperativeamong more than 500 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees as of 1 January 2022,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 was incorporated in Madras in 1947 withThe Hindu'sproprietor, Kasturi Srinivasan, as its Founding Chairman. It took over the operations of theAssociated Press of IndiafromReutersin 1948–49.[6][7]It provides news coverage and information of the region in bothEnglishandHindi.[8][9][10][11]

Overview of PTI[edit]

A 1999 stamp dedicated to the 50th anniversary of PTI, featuring its logo on top.

PTI exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such asAssociated Press,Agence France-Presse,The New York TimesandBloomberg L.P.Major Indian subscribers of PTI includeThe Hindu,The Times of India,The Indian Express,Hindustan Times,The Statesman,The Tribune,News 18,NDTV,India Today,theAll India Radio,Doordarshan,andThe Wire.PTI has offices inBangkok,Beijing,Colombo,Dubai,Islamabad,Kuala Lumpur,Moscow,New York City,andWashington D.C.[12]

Its currentchairmanisAveek Sarkar.[13]He is also the vice chairman ofABP group.[14]

History of PTI[edit]

Time Event
1905 Birth of Associated Press of India (API) floated by K C Roy, often called the first Indian news agency[15]
1919 Reuterstakes 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 inMadras,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.[6][7]
1953 PTI becomes a free agent, independent ofReuters
1976 PTI Economic Service is launched
1976, February PTI,UNI,Samachar Bharati,andHindustan Samacharmerge 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 Computerisationof 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 inAsian 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

See also[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^"Press Trust of India sacks 297 staff in one day / IFJ".International Federation of Journalists.26 January 2019.Retrieved28 January2019.
  2. ^"Contact us".Press Trust of India.Retrieved28 January2019.
  3. ^"Viveck Goenka of Indian Express elected new PTI Chairman".India Today.Retrieved28 January2019.
  4. ^Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIESArchived5 June 2009 at theWayback Machine
  5. ^"Overview of PTU".Press Trust of India.Retrieved1 February2014.
  6. ^abAbout PTI,Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
  7. ^ab"News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation"(PDF).UNESCO. 1953. pp. 16, 21.
  8. ^Mehta, Archit (9 April 2020)."Communal attack in Bawana shared with false claim of Muslim man injecting fruits with spittle".Alt News.Retrieved9 May2020.
  9. ^Roy, Shreyashi (14 February 2020)."2 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Kolkata? No, Media Misreported".The Quint.Archivedfrom the original on 16 June 2020.Retrieved9 May2020.
  10. ^Alphonso, Anmol (22 April 2020)."PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching".BOOM.Retrieved9 May2020.
  11. ^Dubbudu, Rakesh (19 July 2017)."Has the UP Govt Slashed Funds for Education? Here's a Fact Check".The Quint.Archivedfrom the original on 6 April 2024.Retrieved9 May2020.
  12. ^"Press Trust of India".AsiaNet.Archivedfrom the original on 25 March 2024.
  13. ^"Aveek Sarkar is new PTI Chairman".The Tribune (Chandigarh).31 August 2020.Retrieved18 May2021.
  14. ^"ABP's Aveek Sarkar new PTI chairman".The Times of India.31 August 2020.Retrieved18 May2021.
  15. ^"News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation"(PDF).UNESCO. 1953. p. 10.
  16. ^Shrivastava, K. M. (2007).News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet.Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 51.ISBN9781932705676.

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