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| Company type | Non-profitcooperative[1] |
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| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 27 August 1947; 78 years ago (1947-08-27) |
| Headquarters | PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street, New Delhi ,India[2] |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue |  ₹1.73 billion (US$20 million)[4] (2016–17-18) |
Number of employees | 1,000+ (2014) |
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| Website | www |
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known asPTI, is the largestnews agency inIndia.[5] It is headquartered inNew Delhi and is a nonprofitcooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers.[6] 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.[7] PTI also has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres around the world. It was incorporated in Madras in 1947 withThe Hindu's proprietor, Kasturi Srinivasan, as its Founding Chairman. It took over the operations of theAssociated Press of India fromReuters in 1948–49.[8][9] It provides news coverage and information of the region in bothEnglish andHindi.[10][11][12][13]
PTI exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such asAssociated Press,Agence France-Presse,The New York Times andBloomberg 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.[14]
Its currentchairman isAveek Sarkar.[15] He is also the vice chairman ofABP group.[16]
| Time | Event |
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| 1905 | Birth of Associated Press of India (API) floated by K C Roy, often called the first Indian news agency[17] |
| 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 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.[8][9] |
| 1953 | PTI becomes a free agent, independent ofReuters |
| 1976 | PTI Economic Service is launched |
| 1976, February | PTI,UNI,Samachar Bharati, andHindustan Samachar merge under pressure during emergency to become 'Samachar'.[18] |
| 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 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 |
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