Press Trust of India

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 450 Indian newspapers.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7][8] It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.^{[9][10][11][12]}

The Press Trust of India Ltd.

PTI Head Office on Parliament Street, New Delhi.
Company type	Non-profit cooperative[1]
Industry	News media
Founded	27 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-27)
Headquarters	PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street, New Delhi , India[2]
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Aveek Sarkar (Chairman) Vijay Joshi (Editor-in-Chief)
Revenue	₹1.73 billion (US$21 million)[3] (2016–17-18)
Number of employees	1,000+ (2014)
Divisions	PTI Bhasha PTI Photo PTI Graphics
Website	www.ptinews.com

Overview of PTI

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 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, and Washington D.C.^[13]

Its current chairman is Aveek Sarkar.^[14] He is also the vice chairman of ABP group.^[15]

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[16]
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.[7][8]
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'.[17]
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

See also

• Asian News International, another major news agency based in Delhi
• Hindustan Samachar
• Samachar
• United News of India
• United Press of India

Citations

1. "Press Trust of India sacks 297 staff in one day / IFJ". International Federation of Journalists. 26 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
2. "Contact us". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
3. "Viveck Goenka of Indian Express elected new PTI Chairman". India Today. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
4. Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIES Archived 5 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
5. Sterling, Christopher H. (2009), Encyclopedia of Journalism, SAGE, p. 750, ISBN 9780761929574
6. "Overview of PTU". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
7. About PTI, Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
8. "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. pp. 16, 21.
9. 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.
10. Roy, Shreyashi (14 February 2020). "2 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Kolkata? No, Media Misreported". The Quint. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
11. Alphonso, Anmol (22 April 2020). "PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching". BOOM. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
12. Dubbudu, Rakesh (19 July 2017). "Has the UP Govt Slashed Funds for Education? Here's a Fact Check". The Quint. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
13. "Press Trust of India". AsiaNet. Archived from the original on 25 March 2024.
14. "Aveek Sarkar is new PTI Chairman". The Tribune (Chandigarh). 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
15. "ABP's Aveek Sarkar new PTI chairman". The Times of India. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
16. "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. p. 10.
17. Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 51. 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

• Official website