United Press International

United Press International (UPI), world's largest independent news agency, created by the 1958 merger of United Press (founded 1892 by Edward W. Scripps) and the International News Service (founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1906). At its height in the 1950s, UPI had some 200 bureaus (half in the United States) that sent news and pictures to over 5,000 clients.