The Press Association ( PA ) is a multimedia news agency that operates in the UK and Ireland.
PA is part of PA Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers. The biggest shareholders include the Daily Mail and General Trust, News UK, and UBM. The PA Group also includes Globelynx, which provides camera-ready TV remote monitoring systems for corporate clients to connect with TV newscasters in the UK and around the world; TNR, specialist communication consultant; Sticky Content, the leading copywriting agency and content strategy in the UK; and StreamAMG, the video streaming business.
PA, the news agency, feeds content continuously through new national news, including text, images, video, and data to the editorial space across the country. These range from international sports data and entertainment guides, to the list of archived TV and images.
Group photography group, PA Images, has a portfolio of more than 20 million online photos and about 10 million in physical archives since 150 years ago.
PA continues to evolve to provide businesses, brands and public sector organizations with multimedia content. PA products and services include all sports data APIs, live blog host, social media content, media training, page production services and TV listings.
PA customers are diverse, made up of non-media customers, business brands, commercial companies, Government, and nonprofit organizations.
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Histori
Founded in 1868 by a group of provincial newspaper owners, PA provides a London-based news gathering and reporting service from across the UK.
The founders of the news agency sought to produce a more accurate and reliable alternative to monopoly services of telegraph companies. A committee appointed to make arrangements for the establishment of the organization said: "The Association's press is formed on the principle of cooperation and can not work for the benefit of the individual, or be exclusive in his character".
In January 1870, the agency moved from a temporary office to a new headquarters in the Wine Office Court, just outside Fleet Street. At 5 am on Saturday 5 February 1870, the first press telegram was transmitted.
The first PA Correspondent in 1874 and the first sports editor in 1883. The agency's first editor-in-chief was Arthur Cranfield, who was appointed in 1926.
In 1995, PA moved from Fleet Street to Vauxhall Bridge Road, allowing the company to rapidly expand its output mainly in the sports and new media divisions.
The Press Association launched the Ananova news site in 2000. Ananova was then sold to Orange, and in December 2013, the PA Group sold the MeteoGroup weather business, Europe's largest private-sector weather company, to General Atlantic's global growth investment firm.
In 2005, the company changed its name to PA Group to reflect the diverse and growing digital business activities.
In February 2015, PA announced the sale of its financial publishing division, including TelecomFinance and SatelliteFinance.
The complete history of the Press Association was written by Chris Moncrieff, CBE, former Political Editor of the Press Association in 2001 called "Living on a Deadline."
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News Agencies
PA services provide news, sports, entertainment and picture stories, delivered in various formats for various print and digital platforms. The chief editor of the news agency is Pete Clifton, who was appointed in October 2014.
PA provides a stream of content on cable, sends packets for use online, or designs and sends pages that are ready to be published for use in prints. This media content now includes interactive videos and graphics.
- News reporters archive stories every day, from news to show business stories and human interests.
- In sports, the PA reports major events around the world including tennis, golf, rugby, horse racing, and major football tournaments.
- The PA entertainment journal collects celebrity coverage, star interviews, and independent reviews.
- Award-winning images from PA Images provide photographic content for news, sports, and entertainment genres from around the world. Images are multi-format and available for multiple platforms, e.g. tablets, smartphones.
In March 2015, PA launched a training scholarship scheme for Black and Asian Ethnic Minority (BAME) journalists to encourage a more ethnically and socially diverse newsroom. This scheme partnered with the Journalistic Diversity Fund.
Around the Company's coverage of the 2015 UK General Election, PA partnered with Google to provide electoral data to all parliamentary candidates residing throughout the country; and join Facebook to curate content from around the web for UK Political community pages.
Divisions and other businesses
PA Training
PA Training is the largest journalism and media training company in Europe. It was formed in 2006, when the Press Association acquired the Trinity Mirror training center in Newcastle upon Tyne. The NCTJ course at Newcastle has been around since 1969.
The business is already owned by the Press Press Center owned by Westminster Press and combines the two businesses into PA Training, and has a proud history of training many leading journalists in the UK.
It offers courses in magazine journalism, sports, news and features, and by 2013 PA Training gets PMA Media Training; the leading training organization in the magazine industry.
In 2014, the PA journalism training center in Newcastle was named by the NCTJ as the best in the UK.
In March 2015, PA Training created online learning courses so that journalists can learn about and test their knowledge of the Editor's Code of Conduct. PA training develops courses to meet the requirements of the Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO), which adopts codes previously supervised by the Press Complaints Commission.
TNR
Specialist communication consultations are part of the PA Group. Offering creative PR services from a journalistic perspective, it provides the ability to direct videographers, photographers, and offer media training by seasoned journalists.
Globelynx
Globelynx was founded in 2001 and is part of PA Group. Globelynx connects, through a managed fiber-optic network, a growing list of corporate clients to TV newscasters in the UK and around the world. It provides a remote monitored camera surveillance system, a quality goal-driven camera system.
Content Sticky
Sticky Content is a London-based digital copywriting agency, specializing in copies for brands. In October 2013, the PA Group acquired an 80% stake in the company, and they moved to the Vauxhall Bridge Road office in November 2013. PA Group takes full ownership of Sticky Content in 2015.
StreamAMG
StreamAMG (Advanced Media Group) provides European companies with global digital media solutions. PA Group acquired a 60% stake in the company in April 2017.
The key person
Board of directors
- Murdoch MacLennan (Chairman, PA Group, Vice Chairman, Telegraph Media Group)
- Clive Marshall (Chief Executive, Group PA)
- Tony Watson (Managing Director, Press Association)
- Andrew Dowsett, (Chief Operating Officer, PA Group)
- Ed Ethelston (Chief Financial Officer, PA Group)
- Geraldine Allinson (Chairman, KM Group)
- Kevin Beatty (Chief Executive, DMG Media Limited)
- Rebekah Brooks (Chief Executive, UK News)
- The Cobbold Team (Chief Executive, UBM plc)
- Dominic Fitzpatrick (Managing Director, The Irish News)
- Simon Fox (Chief Executive, Trinity Mirror)
Louise Irwin is Corporate Secretary of PA Group
PA Group has 26 shareholders, many of whom are national and regional newspaper groups. They include:
- Daily Mail and General Holdings Ltd
- UK News
- UBMG Ltd
- Trinity Mirror plc
- Guardian Media Group plc
- Telegraph Media Group Ltd
- Johnston Press
- Archant Ltd
- DC Thomson & amp; Co. Ltd.
- car magazine
See also
- EMPICS
- Media in the United Kingdom
- List of news agencies
References
Further reading
- Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan. International News Distribution: The Associated Press, Press Association and Reuters, 1848-1947 (2014)
External links
- Official website
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