![]() "PA Media Group diversifies into stock images with Alamy acquisition". "Former BBC News website editor Pete Clifton named new Press Association editor-in-chief ahead of Jonathan Grun departure". "Press Association to rebrand as PA Media to coincide with move to new London headquarters next year". ^ Tobitt, Charlotte (20 September 2018)."Press Association agrees sale of London HQ as it searches for new home in capital to meet needs of 'modern digital media company' ". ^ "PA sells weather business MeteoGroup for £160m".Living on a Deadline: A History of the Press Association. "Ian Burrell: Agency hatched in Victorian cab has evolved for 21st-century". ^ "Our Brands - PA Media Group overview of the group companies"."PA Group records 85% increase in profits and boosts chief executive's pay". ^ Sweney, Mark Ben Dowell (14 June 2012)."PA wins bid to stop citizen journalists getting press cards - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". Other subsidiaries include Globelynx, founded in 2001 Sticky Content, acquired in full between 20 StreamAMG (Advanced Media Group), acquired in April 2017 and RADAR, founded in 2017. The purchase enables PA Media to enter the international stock photography market. ![]() Alamy Īlamy, a global stock photo agency with over 125 million images, was wholly acquired by PA Media in February 2020. In 2014, PA's journalism training centre in Newcastle was named by the NCTJ as the best in Britain. The business already owned the former Westminster Press-owned Editorial Centre and merged the two businesses to become PA Training, and has a proud history of training many of the UK's leading journalists. The NCTJ course in Newcastle has been around since 1969. It was formed in 2006, when the Press Association acquired Trinity Mirror's training centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. ![]() PA Training is Europe's biggest journalism and media training company. Other divisions and ventures PA Training The editor-in-chief of the news agency is Pete Clifton, who was appointed in October 2014. This coincided with a move from their Vauxhall Bridge Road offices to a new space that would accommodate the move toward digital media. In September 2018 it was announced that the news agency was renamed from Press Association to PA Media, and the umbrella company from PA Group Limited to PA Media Group Limited. In February 2015, PA announced the sale of its finance publications divisions, which included TelecomFinance and SatelliteFinance. In 2005, the company changed its name to PA Group. In December 2013, PA Group sold its weather business MeteoGroup, Europe's largest private sector weather company, to global growth investment firm General Atlantic. The Press Association launched the Ananova news website in 2000. In 1995, PA moved from Fleet Street to Vauxhall Bridge Road, enabling the company to rapidly expand its output particularly in the sports and new media divisions. The agency's first Editor-in-Chief was Arthur Cranfield, appointed in 1926. At 5am on Saturday 5 February 1870, its first press telegram was transmitted. In January 1870 the agency moved from temporary offices into new headquarters at Wine Office Court, off Fleet Street. The news agency's founders sought to produce a more accurate and reliable alternative to the monopoly service of the telegraph companies. History įounded in 1868 by a group of provincial newspaper proprietors, the PA provides a London-based service of news-collecting and reporting from around the United Kingdom. The group's photography arm, PA Images, has a portfolio comprising more than 20 million photographs online and around 10 million in physical archives dating back 150 years. PA Media Group also encompasses Globelynx, which provides TV-ready remotely monitored camera systems for corporate clients to connect with TV news broadcasters in the UK and worldwide TNR, a specialist communications consultancy Sticky Content, a digital copywriting and content strategy agency and StreamAMG, a video streaming business. The biggest shareholders include the Daily Mail and General Trust, News UK, and Informa. It is part of PA Media Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers. PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency, and the national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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