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  1. United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

  2. United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency. Its newswires, photo, news film, and audio services have given news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

  3. United Press International (UPI), American-based news agency, one of the largest proprietary wire services in the world. It was created in 1958 upon the merger of the United Press (UP; 1907) with the International News Service (INS).

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    News people who worked for UPI are nicknamed "Unipressers." Famous Unipressers from UPI's past include journalists Merriman Smith, Howard K. Smith, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Eric Sevareid, Helen Thomas, Pye Chamberlayne, Frank Bartholomew, Hugh Baillie, Vernon Scott, William L. Shirer (who is best remembered today for writing The Rise and Fa...

    On June 21, 1907 United Press Associations began service.
    In 1908, UP pioneered the transmission of feature stories and use of reporter bylines.
    In 1914, Edward Kleinschmidt invented the teletype, which replaced Morse codeclickers in delivering news to newspapers. Press critic Oswald Garrison Villard credits United Press with the first use...
    In the 1920s and 1930s, United Press pioneered its financial wire service and organized the United Feature Syndicate.
    Gordon, Gregory, and Ronald E. Cohen. Down to the Wire: Upi's Fight for Survival. McGraw Hill, 1989. ISBN 0070238049
    Haynes, Gary, and Walter Cronkite. Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures. Bulfinch, 2006. ISBN 0821257587
    Thomas, Helen. Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times. Scribner, 2000. ISBN 0684868091

    All links retrieved May 3, 2023. 1. United Press International official website 2. UPI's Trail of Tears 3. Origins and Early History of UPI 4. Wittstock, Melinda. "UPI star escapes Moon's orbit: The agency taken over by Moonies has lost its respected inquisitor of Presidents" Observer, May 21, 2000.

  4. May 29, 2018 · Since 1907, United Press International (UPI) has been a leading provider of critical information to media outlets, businesses, governments and researchers worldwide. UPI is a global operation headquartered in Washington, D.C. with offices in Beirut, Hong Kong, London, Santiago, Seoul, and Tokyo.

  5. United Press International Television News, abbreviated as UPITN, was a television news agency, operating from 1967 to 1985. It was the successor to earlier UPI television news film operations United Press Movietone and United Press International Newsfilm.

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  7. United Press International has a storied history. Throughout its 100 years UPI has continually maintained its independence surviving profound financial challenges, while leading journalistically...

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