Press Trust of India (PTI) is India's premier news agency, with a reach that covers every corner of India. It employs more than 600 journalists and 800 stringers to cover almost every city and small town in India. Collectively, our journalists put out more than 1,000 text stories, about 200 live videos, about 130 raw video stories, more than 30 voiced video stories and 250 photographs including gr
aphics every day to feed the appetite of the diverse subscribers, who include the mainstream media, the specialized presses, research groups, companies, and government and non-governmental organizations. PTI correspondents are also based in leading capitals and important business and administrative centres around the world. It also has exchange arrangements with several foreign news agencies to magnify its global news footprint. Currently, PTI commands 90 per cent of news agency market share in India. PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in 1949. Today, PTI can well and truly take pride in the legacy of its work, and in its contribution towards the building of free and fair media in India. On its golden jubilee in 1999, President K R Narayanan said: "We got Independence in August 1947. But Independence in news and information we got only with the establishment of PTI in 1949.