Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIES 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.About PTI, Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017. 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, London and Washington D.C.

Its current chairman is Mahendra Mohan Gupta. 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

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