UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS, founded in 1907 on the principle of non-exclusive collection and distribution of the spot news of the world, has developed an organization which covers the United States and Canada with a network of 105,000 m. of leased telegraph lines. The service also extends to 39 for eign countries. The management claims that the full leased wire service is used (1929) by 507 daily and Sunday newspapers, with limited service going to 339 additional clients. The founder was the late E. W. Scripps, pioneer American newspaper publisher, whose group of papers, numbering 25 in as many cities of the United States, is now known as Scripps-Howard newspapers. United Press was created from the merger of the Scripps-McRae Press Association and the Publishers' Press Association. Scripps opposed the principle of exclusive news franchises, granting none and seeking none. United Press serves evening and morning and
Sunday newspapers with news of every description. In some 5o bureaux or branch offices staff employees collect and distribute the news of various prescribed territories and feed trunk-line wires which carry the reports to the general clientele. Bureaux are maintained in every important capital of the world. The principal foreign bureau is in London. News is distributed in Great Britain by the British United Press, organized in 1922. The London bureau also serves clients in Spain, Italy, France and the Orient. The Berlin bureau serves newspapers in Central Europe. Modern means of communication are employed and the management claims an annual expenditure of for the collection and distribution of news. The general headquarters are in New York.
(M. E. P.)