The Press Trust of India was incorporated in Madras on 27 August 1947 and began its news service on 1 February 1949, taking over the Associated Press of India…
K.C. Roy's Associated Press of India, often called the first Indian agency. Reuters took it over in 1919.
India's newspaper society decided to form the Press Trust of India and buy out Reuters' Indian agency.
Twelve days after independence, with Kasturi Srinivasan of The Hindu as founding chairman.
PTI took over the API service from Reuters on 1 February 1949, keeping a Reuters partnership.
In 1953 the Reuters link ended and PTI made its own exchange deals with foreign agencies.
Yes. United News of India, backed by eight papers, began service in 1961 as a check on PTI.
PTI, UNI and two language agencies were merged into one state-backed agency, Samachar.
After a review by the Kuldip Nayar Committee, the four agencies were separated again.
PTI Bhasha launched in April 1986, with PTI-TV, satellite trials and, in 1987, a photo service.
In March 1999, its golden jubilee year. India Post issued a stamp.
Teleprinter-era jobs were cut as delivery went digital. A court stayed the retrenchment.
After PTI interviewed China's envoy, the broadcaster called its coverage anti-national and later ended its subscription.
Its video service launched in February 2023. In December the prime minister visited the newsroom.
A newspaper-owned agency with more than 800 subscribers, a fact-check unit and the AI question ahead.
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