Press Trust of India
Press Trust of India (Devanagari: प्रेस ट्रस्ट ऑफ़् इंडिया Prēs ţrasţ ŏph iṃḍiyā) (often abbreviated as PTI) is the largest news agency in India.[1] It is headquartered in Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers and has a staff of about 2,000 writers spread across 150 offices nationwide.[2] It took over the Indian operations of the Associated Press and Reuters soon after India's independence on August 15, 1947. It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.
It 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 Times of India, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the All India Radio and Doordarshan. PTI has a wide global presence with offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, New York and Washington D.C..[3]
Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its own communication satellite, an INSAT, to broadcast news and information. Its current chairman is Mr. V.K. Chopra
History of PTI
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Birth of Associated Press of India, PTI's forerunner floated by K C Roy |
| 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, August 27 | Press Trust of India incorporated in Madras |
| 1949, February 1 | 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 restrart 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 USA |
| 1985 | Computerisation of news operations starts PTI service launched for subscribers in UK |
| 1986, February | PTI-TV launched |
| 1986, April | PTI-Bhasha launched |
| 1986, August | Experimental broadcast of news and pix 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 |
It’s PTI’s Diamond Jubilee
NEW DELHI: Employees of The Press Trust of India (PTI) will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the newswire for three days from February 2.
Serving subscribers from the days when the Constitution was adopted, the PTI has now acquired a prominent place in news dissemination worldwide.
“It is our Diamond Jubilee,” said M.S. Yadav, general secretary of the Federation of PTI Employees’ Unions. The three-day celebrations would see political and business leaders and thinkers speaking on diverse subjects, he added.
In his letter of congratulations, PTI CEO and Editor-in-Chief M.K. Razdan described the human resource as the agency’s most prized asset.
Employees from across the country will begin gathering here for the celebrations, which will be formally inaugurated by Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on February 3
See also
- Asian News International, another major news agency based in Delhi
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