Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. United Press International (UPI) is a news agency that has roots dating back to 1907, and that now consists of a headquarters office in Washington D.C. in the United States, office locations in five other countries, and a website. The company also uses the services of freelance journalists in several of the world's major cities.UPI was once mainstay in the newswire business along with the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters; at its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers, 2,000 full time employees, and 200 news bureaus in 92 countries.The company began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news. Its decline accelerated after the 1982 sale of UPI by the founding Scripps family, culminating in two bankruptcies.