United Press International

==Key UP/UPI product and technical innovation dates==
* In 1908, UP began offering feature stories and using reporter [[byline]]s.<ref name="1907-1910"/>
* In 1915, UP begins to use [[teleprinter]]s, more recently known as Teletype machines.<ref name="deadline"/>
* In the 1930s and 1940s, UP Newspictures predecessor agency Acme developed the International Unifax machine, the first automatic picture receiver.<ref name="unifax"/>
* The "Ocean Press", a news service for [[ocean liner]]s, was founded in the 1930s, as a corporate subsidiary of Scripps. It used copy from United Press and later United Press International. By 1959, it had 125 subscriber ships.<ref name="reports a record"/>
* In 1935, UP was the first major news service to offer news to [[Broadcasting|broadcasters]].<ref name="1921-1940"/>
* In 1945, UP offered the first all-sports wire.<ref name="1941-1960"/>
* In 1948, UP started the first international television news film service. Originally named "UP Movietone", in view of a partnership with the [[Movietone News]] service of [[20th Century Fox]], it went through several partnerships and name changes and was known as [[United Press International Television News]] or simply as UPITN, a name which also credited UPI's film and video service partner at the time, Britain's [[ITN]] television news service.<ref name="1941-1960"/>
* In 1951, UP offered the first [[teletypesetter]] (TTS) service, enabling newspapers to automatically set and justify type from wire transmissions.<ref name="1941-1960"/>
* In 1952 UP, absorbed the Scripps-owned Acme photo service to form UP Newspictures
* In 1958 United Press absorbed Hearst's INS to create UPI
* In 1958, UPI created the first wire service audio network, an offshoot of the film service above. UPI Audio provided news material to radio stations. It was renamed [[United Press International Radio Network]] in 1983.<ref name="audio"/><ref name="1941-1960"/>
* In 1974, UPI launched the first "high-speed" data newswire—operating at 1,200 WPM.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}
* In 1978, UPI launched the first cable TV news network, [[UPI Newstime]], using [[Slow-scan television|SSTV]] technology via satellite to relay the channel to cable TV companies nationwide in the USA.
* In 1979, UPI along with Telecomputing Corp. of America began making the UPI world news report available to owners of home computers.<ref name="1961-1980"/>
* In 1982, UPI pioneered a coding system allowing clients to choose stories based on topic, subtopic and location.<ref name="1981-2000"/>