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United Press International

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noun

  1. a business organization of newspapers in the U.S., together with representatives abroad, for the reporting and interchange of news. UPI, U.P.I.


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People trusted him because for much of his career he’d been a workaday reporter at United Press International.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Edmonds sold one of his images for $25 to United Press International.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

After graduating from San Jose State, I briefly covered local government for the then-Sunnyvale Standard, but was soon hired by United Press International in San Francisco as a cheap sportswriter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

“Pizza a la Russe,” United Press International, Nov. 9, 1986.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023

Having started my career as a wire service reporter with United Press International, I have enormous sympathy with wire service reporters and the pressures, both professional and financial, under which they toil.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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