White House reporter Helen Thomas became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferences beginning in the early 1960s.

The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, resigned her position, after working for UPI 57 years.

In 2007 as part of a restructuring to keep UPI in business and profitable, management cut 11 staff from its Washington D. C. office and no longer has a reporter in the White House press corps or a bureau covering the United Nations.

She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International ( UPI ) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager.

She became the White House UPI correspondent in January 1961.

While serving as White House Bureau Chief, she authored a regular column for UPI, " Backstairs at the White House.

White was honored for his team's achievements by being named UPI Coach of the Year.

His involvement was quickly ruled out ; but an inexperienced wire service reporter ( Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts, Joe Frazier of AP by others ), rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker.

Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a United Press International | UPI reporter covering the event.

After leaving her job as a reporter at the UPI, Thomas became more likely to air her personal, negative views.

In early 1949, a UPI reporter from Fort Wayne sent the story out on the wire services, and the turtle became nationally famous.

Veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas suggested that in public, the Nixons " moved through life ritualistically ", but privately, however, they were " very close ".

A newspaper editorial from the Richmond News Leader opined that " Attempts to dismiss the reported sightings under the rationale as exhibited by Project Bluebook ( sic ) won ’ t solve the mystery … and serve only to heighten the suspicion that there ’ s something out there that the air force doesn't want us to know about ", while a Wichita-based UPI reporter noted that " Ordinary radar does not pick up planets and stars.

UPI reporter Karlyn Barker sent Woodward and Bernstein a memo " Notes On the USC Crowd " that outlined the connection.

* Article by UPI reporter Mark Harris on Evans ' execution

A reporter from the UPI made a phone call to Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals the next day to inquire about White's status.

* Dan Olmsted – an investigative reporter and former senior editor for United Press International ( UPI ), a news agency of the Unification Church company News World Communications.

* William Henry Rentschler ' 49, former reporter for Minneapolis Star Tribune, UPI and Chicago Sun-Times.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

" It was during Kennedy's administration that she began ending presidential press conferences with a signature " Thank you, Mr. President ," reviving a tradition started by UPI ’ s Merriman Smith during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

** Merriman Smith, UPI ( middle front )

Smith and UPI won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting.

For example, ringing 4 bells on UPI wire-service machines meant an " Urgent " message ; 5 bells was a " Bulletin "; and 10 bells was a FLASH, used only for very important news.

In 1955, Kuharich led the Redskins to their first winning season in ten years and was named both Sporting News Coach of the Year and UPI NFL Coach of the Year.

Pardee's quick success with the team did not go unnoticed, however, and he was named Associated Press Coach of the Year and UPI NFC Coach of the Year.

While Patton had many detractors in the press, he also received praise from others, including a tribute from a UPI writer who wrote, " Gen. George S. Patton believed he was the greatest soldier who ever lived.

As either UP or UPI, the agency was among the largest newswire services in the world, competing domestically for about 90 years with the Associated Press and internationally with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

Since its sale in 1982, UPI has changed ownership several times and was twice in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

In 2000, UPI was purchased by News World Communications, an international news media company which was founded in 1976 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon.

But the UP-INS merger involved another business component that was to hurt the new UPI company badly in later years.

The UPI Audio actuality service for radio stations, created in 1958 and later renamed the United Press International Radio Network, was a spinoff from the newsfilm service and eventually provided news material to more than a thousand radio stations and US and foreign networks, including NPR.

UPI came close to equaling the size of the AP in the early 1960s, but as publishing companies began to pare their evening newspapers, it was dropped by papers that could no longer afford to subscribe to both UPI and the AP.

Ruhe and Geissler obtained UPI for the nominal price of $ 1 and were given a Scripps loan of $ 5 million, which was never repaid.

Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of UPI and its predecessor agencies, storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins.

At that point, UPI was down to 585 employees.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

UPI was purchased in May 2000 by the Unification Church's media corporation, News World Communications, which, at the time, also owned the Washington Times and newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America.

UPI spokespersons and press releases said the company would be focusing instead on expanding operations in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, and reporting on security threats, intelligence and energy issues.

On Friday, November 20, United Press International's ( UPI ) wire service reported that book values for used Edsels had declined by as much as $ 400 ( approximately $ 2, 800 in 2006 values ) based on condition and age immediately following the Ford press release.

A dramatic snapshot by Johnny Jenkins ( UPI ) showed the young girl being followed and threatened by an angry white mob ; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the print press.

The next day, after attending the military press conference, UPI correspondent sent out the following dispatch: SAIGON ( UPI )-The deputy commander of South Vietnamese troops defending the Saigon area was found shot to death Tuesday night following an argument with his superior over tactics.

He began work as a press photographer in Laos stringing for UPI and AFP, having taught himself photography.

Carr even became a voice of caution in Ginsberg ’ s life, warning him to “ keep the hustlers and parasites at arm ’ s length .” For many years, Ginsberg would visit the UPI offices and press Carr to cover the various causes with which Ginsberg had allied himself.

The event was reported around the world with numerous American newspapers picking up the story from the UPI press agency.