United Press International

===Current ownership===
[[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|thumb|United Press International office in Washington D.C., circa 2005]]
	
UPI was purchased in May 2000 by [[News World Communications]], a media conglomerate founded by [[Unification Church]] founder [[Sun Myung Moon]], which also owned ''[[The Washington Times]]'' and newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America.<ref name="staff cuts"/> The next day, UPI's [[White House]] correspondent, [[Helen Thomas]], resigned her position, after working for UPI for 57 years.<ref name="fixture"/>

In 2007, as part of a restructuring to keep UPI in business and profitable, management cut 11 staff from its Washington, D.C. office and no longer had a reporter in the [[White House press corps]] or a bureau covering the United Nations.<ref name="staff cuts"/><ref name="UN bureau"/> UPI spokespersons and press releases said the company would be focusing instead on expanding operations in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, and reporting on security threats, intelligence and energy issues.<ref name="staff cuts"/><ref name="UN bureau"/> In 2008, UPI began UPIU, a journalism mentoring platform for students and journalism schools, that allowed recent college graduates to post their work on the site but did not pay for stories.<ref name=upiu/>