Press Association

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Formation1868
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Membership• Clive Marshall
• Polly Curtis
• Andrew Dowsett
• James Goode
• Louise Irwin
• Murdoch MacLennan
• Geraldine Allinson
• Dominic Fitzpatrick
• Rebekah Brooks
• Paul Dacre
• Jim Mullen
• Lord Carter
UK corporate news agency

PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

PA Media is part of PA Media Group Limited,[1] a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers. The biggest shareholders include the Daily Mail and General Trust, News UK, and Informa. [2]

PA Media, the news agency, delivers a continuous feed of content via a national newswire, including text, images, video and data into newsrooms around the country. This ranges from international sports data and entertainment guides, to TV listings and archived images.

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.[3]

PA Media's customers are varied, consisting of non-media customers, business brands, commercial companies, government and not-for-profit organisations.[4]

Alamy

Alamy, a global stock photo agency with over 125 million images, was wholly acquired by PA Media in February 2020.[5] The purchase enables PA Media to enter the international stock photography market.

PA was awarded a €706,000 grant from Google in July 2017 to fund a local news automation service in collaboration with Urbs Media.[6]

Shareholders

PA Media Group has 26 shareholders, many of whom are national and regional newspaper groups. They include:

Board

The board members (see above) is from march 2021[7].


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