Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Ltd.
Company typeNon-profit cooperative[1]
IndustryNews media
Founded27 August 1947; 76 years ago (1947-08-27)
HeadquartersPTI Building, 4, Parliament Street,
New Delhi
,
India[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
RevenueIncrease ₹1.73 billion (US$21 million)[3] (2016–17-18)
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 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.[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.