Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Ltd.
Company typeNon-profit cooperative[1]
IndustryNews media
Founded27 August 1947 (1947-08-27)
HeadquartersPTI Building, 4, Parliament Street,
New Delhi
,
India[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
RevenueIncrease 1.73 billion (US$22 million)[3] (2016–17)
Number of employees
1,000+ (2014)
Divisions
  • PTI Bhasha
  • PTI Photo
  • PTI Graphics
Websitewww.ptinews.com

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 500 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees as of 1 January 2022, including about 400 journalists. It also has nearly 400 part-time correspondents in most of the district headquarters of the country.[5] PTI also has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres around the world. It took over the operations of the Associated Press of India from Reuters in 1948–49.[6][7] It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.[8][9][10][11]

  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. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. ^ Embassy of India (Moscow) – NEWS AGENCIES Archived 5 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Overview of PTU". Press Trust of India. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  6. ^ About PTI, Press Trust of India, retrieved 14 March 2017.
  7. ^ "News Agencies: Their Structure and Operation" (PDF). UNESCO. 1953. pp. 16, 21.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Alphonso, Anmol (22 April 2020). "PTI Misreports Maharashtra Home Minister On Palghar Lynching". BOOM. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  11. ^ 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.

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