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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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The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 2026

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

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2024

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

From Slate Nov. 22, 2023

There have been other MVP-type awards given out by The Sporting News and United Press International and years later the Pro Football Writers Association.

From Washington Times Nov. 16, 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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