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64-429: United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919. From 1922 to 1958, United Features was the column, feature (and comics) division of Scripps' United Press Association . Authors syndicated by United Features in its early years included Frank A. Vanderlip , Octavus Roy Cohen , David Lloyd George , Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Herbert Hoover , Sinclair Lewis , Benito Mussolini , Édouard Herriot , and Heywood Broun . It became

128-600: A common training ground for generations of journalists. Walter Cronkite , who started with United Press in Kansas City , gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow 's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News , once said, "I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, 'This is the day I'm going to beat

192-500: A corresponding shrinkage of its traditional media customer base. Since the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its one-time major rival, the AP, UPI has concentrated on smaller information market niches. It no longer services media organizations in a major way. In 2000, UPI was purchased by News World Communications , an international news media company founded in 1976 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon . It now maintains

256-472: A distribution deal with Universal Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication ) for syndication of the company's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1 of that year. While United Media effectively ceased to exist, Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights. The United Feature Syndicate brand still continues to be used on many strips. United Press Association United Press International ( UPI )

320-672: A dominant player in the syndication market in the early 1930s. In March 1930, United Features acquired the Metropolitan Newspaper Service (ostensibly from the Bell Syndicate ). And in late February 1931, Scripps acquired the New York World , which controlled the syndication arms of the Pulitzer company: World Feature Service and Press Publishing Co. (which unlike other syndicates were owned by

384-630: A new comic strip Andrews McMeel syndicates, Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia which was introduced in 2022. On February 24, 2011, Universal Uclick signed a deal with E. W. Scripps Company 's United Media to handle syndication of the latter company's 150 comic strip and news features (under the banners United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association ) beginning on June 1 of that year. The United Media deal brought over such long-running comic strips as Alley Oop , Marmaduke , Nancy , and Tarzan . As

448-519: A news website and photo service and electronically publishes several information product packages. Based mostly on aggregation from other sources on the Web and gathered by a small editorial staff and stringers , UPI's daily content consists of a newsbrief summary service called "NewsTrack," which includes general, business, sports, science, health and entertainment reports, and "Quirks in the News." It also sells

512-671: A premium service, which has deeper coverage and analysis of emerging threats, the security industry, and energy resources. UPI's content is presented in text, video and photo formats, in English, Spanish, and Arabic. UPI's main office is in the Miami metropolitan area and it maintains office locations in five other countries and uses freelance journalists in other major cities. In 1923, UP founded British United Press as its Canadian subsidiary with headquarters in Montreal . It soon expanded to

576-418: A profit from selling that news to papers owned by others. At that time and until World War II , most newspapers relied on news agencies for stories outside their immediate geographic areas. Despite strong newspaper industry opposition, UP started to sell news to the new and competitive radio medium in 1935, years before competitor AP, controlled by the newspaper industry, did likewise. Scripps' United Press

640-407: A profit. The company had begun to sell Internet-adapted products to such websites as Excite and Yahoo. At that point, UPI CEO Arnaud de Borchgrave orchestrated UPI's exit from its last major media niche, the broadcast news business that United Press had initiated in the 1930s. De Borchgrave maintained that "what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news,

704-641: A reporter in the White House press corps or a bureau covering the United Nations. 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. In 2008, UPI began UPIU, a journalism mentoring platform for students and journalism schools, that allowed recent college graduates to post their work on

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768-593: A result of this acquisition, Universal Uclick became one of the largest print syndicators in the United States, as United Media — along with King Features Syndicate and Creators Syndicate — was one of Andrews McMeel's main competitors in the industry. Existing and formerly syndicated comics by Andrews McMeel Syndication include Dilbert (until February 2023), For Better or For Worse , FoxTrot , Calvin and Hobbes , Garfield , The Boondocks , Doonesbury , Cathy , Pooch Cafe , Baldo , What

832-1174: A selection of syndicated comic strips from Creators Syndicate and Tribune Content Agency . In October 2008, Uclick launched a GoComics gadget for iGoogle which allows users to read comic strips on their iGoogle pages. As of 2016, the company syndicated more than 80 comic strips to over 2,000 newspapers worldwide. Andrews McMeel Syndication syndicates the editorial cartoonists Don Asmussen , Tony Auth , Stuart Carlson , Lalo Alcaraz , Glenn McCoy , Pat Oliphant , Ted Rall , Rob Rogers (cartoonist) , Ben Sargent , Tom Toles , Matt Davies , Matt Bors , Matt Wuerker , Ruben Bolling and Kerry Waghorn . Andrews McMeel Syndication distributes daily puzzles and games in newspapers and other print media. The company also distributes puzzles and casual games online through consumer and news web portals as well as through its own puzzle and game portals, PuzzleSociety.com and UclickGames.com. Andrews McMeel Syndication products include crossword puzzles and games edited by David Steinberg and Pat Sajak , number placement puzzles like Sudoku and Kakuro , jigsaw puzzles and other casual games. Andrews McMeel Syndication distributes

896-591: A successful distributor of newspaper comics, for the first time distributing color Sunday strips . An April 1933 article in Fortune described United Features as one of the "Big Four" American syndicates (along with King Features Syndicate , Chicago Tribune Syndicate , and the Bell Syndicate ). In 1934, United Features launched its first original strip, Al Capp 's Li'l Abner . As Li'l Abner 's popularity increased, creator Capp lampooned United Features in his strip-within-a-strip, Fearless Fosdick , which featured

960-464: Is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns , comic strips and cartoons and various other content. Some of its best-known products include Dear Abby , Doonesbury , Ziggy , Garfield , Ann Coulter , Richard Roeper and News of the Weird . A subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal , it

1024-408: Is an American international news agency whose newswires , photo , news film , and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers , magazines , radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and

1088-570: Is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri . It was formed in 2009 and renamed in January 2017. Universal Press Syndicate (UPS) was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel. The company began syndicating Garry Trudeau 's Doonesbury comic strip in October 1970 . Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975 for his work on Doonesbury . The strip as of 2009

1152-414: Is now a static quantity and so far as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future". He sought to shift UPI's dwindling resources into Internet-based delivery of newsletter services, focusing more on technical and diplomatic specialties than on general news. The rump UPI thus sold the client list of its still-significant radio network and broadcast wire to its former rival, the AP. UPI

1216-574: The Cleveland Press , publisher E. W. Scripps (1854–1926) created the first chain of newspapers in the United States. Because the then-recently reorganized Associated Press refused to sell its services to several of his papers, most of them evening dailies in competition with existing AP franchise holders, in 1907 Scripps merged three smaller syndicates under his ownership or control, the Publishers Press Association,

1280-505: The Associated Press (AP) and internationally with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP) . At its peak, UPI had more than 2,000 full-time employees and 200 news bureaus in 92 countries; it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. With the rising popularity of television news, the business of UPI began to decline as the circulation of afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fall. Its decline accelerated after

1344-541: The Newspaper Enterprise Association to form United Media Enterprises . United Media continued to syndicate strips under the United Feature Syndicate brand. In 1994, Jim Davis's company, Paws, Inc. , purchased the rights to Garfield (including the strips from 1978 to 1993) from United Features. The strip is currently distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication , while rights for the strip remain with Paws. On February 24, 2011, United Media struck

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1408-916: The United Kingdom and India , and was one of several news agencies supplying news bulletins to the BBC until the broadcaster began hiring its own reporters. The BBC's decision in 1936 to use BUP as a supplier of international news reports engendered opposition from other news agencies and the Foreign Office as BUP was seen as a front group for the American-based United Press and thus represented American rather than British news values. BUP correspondents included future anchors Knowlton Nash and Walter Cronkite . In 1936, BUP launched Canada's first coast-to-coast radio newswire service providing news copy to private radio stations across

1472-518: 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 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

1536-515: The $ 1.0 – $ 1.5 million per month that UPI was already losing. Facing news industry skepticism about their background and qualifications to run an international news agency, Ruhe and Geissler watched an increase in contract cancellations. Despite serious cash flow problems, they moved UPI's headquarters from New York City to Washington, DC, incurring significant additional costs due to construction cost overruns. During this period, UPI's 25-year-old audio news actuality service for radio stations

1600-467: The 1918 armistice ending World War I had been declared four days before it happened. Howard's reputation survived and he later became a Scripps partner, whose name appeared in one of the Scripps subsidiary companies, Scripps-Howard. But the mistake dogged UP/UPI for generations. Still, the agency's reporters were often able to tell stories more quickly and accurately although they were usually outnumbered by

1664-649: The 1982 sale of UPI by the Scripps company. The E.W. Scripps Company controlled United Press until its absorption of William Randolph Hearst 's smaller competing agency, INS, in 1958 to form UPI. With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner, UPI continued under Scripps management until 1982. Since its sale in 1982, UPI has changed ownership several times and was twice in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. With each change in ownership came deeper service and staff cutbacks and changes of focus and

1728-486: The 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press , UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP , the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps . It

1792-607: The AP name (as detailed at Associated Press and in AP's 2007 history, Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else , cited in Notes ). Drawing lessons from the battles between the earlier United Press and the various AP's, Scripps required that there be no restrictions on who could buy news from his news service, and he made the new UP service available to anyone, including his competitors. Scripps also hoped to make

1856-450: The AP. UPI's failure to develop a television presence or subsidiary television news service has also been cited as one of the causes of its decline. By the early 1980s, the number of staffers was down to 1,800 and there were just 100 news bureaus. Under pressure from some of E. W. Scripps ' heirs, the Scripps company , which had been underwriting UPI's expenses at a loss for at least two decades, began trying to transfer control of UPI in

1920-672: The Duck , Ink Pen , Liō , Cul de Sac , Ziggy , Tom the Dancing Bug , Ozy and Millie , The Far Side and Peanuts (since February 27, 2011) in newspapers, calendars and books. Andrews McMeel Syndication also owns and operates GoComics (launched in 2005), a comics aggregate website featuring comic strips syndicated in print, online and on mobile devices by Andrews McMeel Syndication, as well as discontinued titles such as Calvin and Hobbes , The Boondocks and Bloom County , webcomics such as Pibgorn and Kliban , plus

1984-651: The Scripps-McRae Press Association, and the Scripps News Association, to form United Press Associations, with headquarters in New York City. Scripps had been a subscriber to an earlier news agency, also named United Press , that existed in the late 1800s, partly in cooperation with the management of the original New York-based AP and partly in existential competition with two Chicago-based organizations also using

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2048-562: The UP-INS merger involved another business component that was to hurt the new UPI company badly in later years. Because INS had been a subsidiary of Hearst's King Features Syndicate and Scripps controlled several other newspaper syndicates, both companies feared possible antitrust issues. So they deliberately kept their respective syndicates out of the combined UPI company. That move cost UPI the revenues of its previous United Feature Syndicate subsidiary, which in later years made large profits on

2112-698: The United Feature comics line in 1954, a few of their titles would be continued by St. John Publications . The rest of their comic book properties were acquired by Dell Comics in 1958. In 1968, United Features syndicated about 50 features to 1500 clients. In 1972, United Features Syndicate acquired and absorbed the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell-McClure Syndicate into its operations. In May 1978 Scripps merged United Feature Syndicate and

2176-485: The abusive and corrupt "Squeezeblood Syndicate." Robert M. Hall was a sales manager at United Features starting in 1935; he left in 1944 to start the Post Syndicate . From 1936 to 1954, United Feature published their own line of comic books , using their comic strip features as characters. Lev Gleason , who in the 1940s and 1950s published a number of popular comics titles, was an editor at United Feature in

2240-556: The agency away to two inexperienced businessmen, Douglas Ruhe (son of David Ruhe , a member of the Universal House of Justice , the supreme governing body of the Baháʼí Faith ) and William Geissler, originally associated with two better-known partners, who soon departed. Ruhe and Geissler obtained UPI for $ 1. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, Scripps first injected UPI with a $ 5 million cash balance, in acknowledgement of

2304-433: The beginning, including the company's first title, Tip Top Comics . Three United Feature titles published more than 100 issues: Tip Top Comics (188 issues, Apr. 1936–Sept./Oct. 1954), Sparkler Comics (120 issues, July 1941–Nov./Dec. 1954), and Comics on Parade (104 issues, Apr. 1938–Feb. 1955). The company even created its own original superheroes: Iron Vic, Mirror Man, and Spark Man (none of whom caught on). After ending

2368-469: The competition. In 1950, for example, UP reported the invasion of South Korea by North Korea two hours and forty minutes before its archrival, the AP. The New York Times later apologized to UP for refusing to print information on the invasion until the AP had confirmed it. Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his memoirs cited in Notes ,

2432-529: The country. In 1940, the Canadian government suspended the broadcast licenses of BUP and Transradio Press Service both of whom, unlike Canadian Press , sold commercial sponsorships for its news bulletins in violation of government policy. Transport minister C.D. Howe , who was responsible for broadcasting policy, announced that the two wire services must “show their news source is accurate” in order to retain their licenses. After complaints by Transradio that

2496-540: The daily Jumble online (but not in print, where Tribune Media Services distributes the puzzles). Andrews McMeel Syndication syndicated columns and text features are distributed in newspapers and other print media worldwide and online through consumer and news web portals, as well as through the Andrews McMeel Syndication syndicated column and text feature consumer site, uExpress.com. Popular Andrews McMeel Syndication columns and text features include

2560-400: The day, allowed them much freedom in chronicling the events of the civil rights struggle. White House reporter Helen Thomas became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferences beginning in the early 1960s. UPI famously scooped the AP in reporting the assassination of US President John Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963. UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith

2624-539: The early 1980s. It tried to bring in additional newspaper industry partners and when that failed, engaged in serious negotiations with British competitor Reuters , which wanted to increase its US presence. As detailed in "Down to the Wire", by Gordon and Cohen, cited in Notes , Reuters did extensive due diligence and expressed an interest in parts of the UPI service, but did not wish to maintain it in full. Scripps wound up giving

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2688-441: The early TV operation of ABC News . In subsequent decades, it underwent several changes in partnerships and names, becoming best known as United Press International Television News (UPITN). Senior UPITN executives later helped Ted Turner create CNN , with its first two presidents, Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt , coming from UPITN ranks. The UPI Audio actuality service for radio stations, created in 1958 and later renamed

2752-715: The extraordinary coverage costs. In its heyday, newspapers typically paid UPI about half what they paid AP in the same cities for the same services: At one point, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times paid AP $ 12,500 a week, but UPI only $ 5,000; the Wall Street Journal paid AP $ 36,000 a week, but UPI only $ 19,300. The AP, which serviced 1,243 newspapers at the time, remained UPI's main competitor. In 1959, UPI had 6,208 clients in 92 countries and territories, 234 news and picture bureaus, and an annual payroll of $ 34,000,000, ($ 355,369,863 in today's dollars). But

2816-548: The hell out of AP.' That was part of the spirit. We knew we were undermanned. But we knew we could do a darn good job despite that, and so many times, we did." Despite that, like all agencies that deal with huge volumes of timely information, UP and later UPI had its share of remembered mistakes. As recounted in the various printed histories of UPI cited in Notes , the most famous one came early in its history. UP's president, Roy W. Howard , then traveling in France, telegraphed that

2880-561: The move was an attempt by “selfish publishing and monopolistic interests … to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion”, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , which at the time was also responsible for regulating private radio broadcasters, agreed to reinstate Transradio's and BUP's licenses while also announcing a plan to enforce the ban on commercial news broadcasts by editing dispatches by

2944-522: The new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine , Louella Parsons and Ruth Montgomery , were carried by UPI. Rival AP was a publishers' cooperative and could assess its members to help pay the extraordinary costs of covering major news—wars, the Olympic Games, national political conventions. UPI clients, in contrast, paid a fixed annual rate; depending on individual contracts, UPI could not always ask them to help shoulder

3008-509: The paper rather than being separate entities). The Metropolitan Newspaper Service acquisition brought over the comic strips Tarzan and Ella Cinders . The World Feature Service acquisition brought over the comic strips The Captain and the Kids , Everyday Movies , Fritzi Ritz , Hawkshaw the Detective , Joe Jinks , and Little Mary Mixup . From this point, United Features became

3072-533: The picture component of Hearst's INS to the Bettmann Archive . Bettmann was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates 's separate Corbis Corporation , storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins. In August 2011 Corbis announced a deal with AP to distribute each other's photos to their clients, effectively combining

3136-548: The pre-1983 UPI library with that of its former main rival for some marketing purposes. In 2016 Corbis sold to the Visual China Group. UPI's remaining minority stake in UPITN was also sold and the agency was renamed Worldwide Television News (WTN). As with its photographs, UPI thereby lost all control of its newsfilm and video library, which is now held by WTN-successor Associated Press Television News , which entered

3200-689: The site but did not pay for stories. United Press International conferred sports awards annually until 1996 . The awards were given to basketball players, basketball coaches, football players and athletes in general. The different awards were: While much of normal news agency work is little publicized, many UP/UPI news staffers have gained fame, either while with the agency or in later careers. They include journalists, news executives, novelists and high government officials. Among them: UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes : Current History Andrews McMeel Syndication Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick )

3264-628: The syndication of Peanuts and other popular comic strips and columns. UPI had an advantage of independence over the AP in reporting on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Because the AP was a cooperative essentially owned by the newspapers, those in the South influenced its coverage of the racial unrest and protests, often ignoring, minimizing, or slanting the reporting. UPI did not have that sort of pressure, and management, according to UPI reporters and photographers of

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3328-898: The video news field long after UPI left it. Years of mismanagement, missed opportunities and continual wage and staff cuts followed. By 1984, UPI had descended into the first of two Chapter 11 bankruptcies . Mario Vázquez Raña , a Mexican media magnate, with a nominal American minority partner, Houston real estate developer Joseph Russo, purchased UPI out of bankruptcy for $ 40 million, losing millions during his short tenure, and firing numerous high-level staff. In 1988, Vázquez Raña sold UPI to Infotechnology, Inc., an information technology and venture capital company and parent company of cable TV's Financial News Network , both headed by Earl Brian , who also became UPI chairman. In early 1991, Infotechnology itself filed for bankruptcy, announced layoffs at UPI and sought to terminate certain employee benefits in an attempt to keep UPI afloat. At that point, UPI

3392-554: The wire services before they were distributed to radio stations. In 1958, when United Press merged with the International News Service to become UPI, British United Press was renamed United Press International of Canada. In 1979, 80% of UPI Canada was sold to the Toronto Sun newspaper chain and renamed United Press Canada. In 1985, UPC was sold to Canadian Press , which absorbed it. Beginning with

3456-606: Was aimed at creating a stronger competitor for the Associated Press and a stronger economic entity than either UP or INS. The newly formed United Press International (UPI) had 950 client newspapers. Fearing possible antitrust issues with the Eisenhower Administration Justice Department , Scripps and Hearst rushed the merger through with unusual speed and secrecy. Although all UP employees were retained, most INS employees lost their jobs with practically no warning. A relative few did join

3520-399: Was also deeply involved with the newer visual medium of television . In 1948, it entered into a partnership with 20th Century Fox subsidiary Fox Movietone News to shoot newsfilm for television stations. That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years

3584-476: Was an eyewitness, and he commandeered the press car's only phone to dictate the story to UPI as AP reporter Jack Bell tried—without success—to wrest the phone away so he could call his office. Smith and UPI won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. United Press had no direct wirephoto service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned ACME Newspictures , under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services. By that time, UP

3648-553: Was considered "a scrappy alternative" news source to the AP. UP reporters were called "Unipressers" and were noted for their fiercely aggressive and competitive streak. Another hallmark of the company's culture was little formal training of reporters; new hires were often thrust into a "sink-or-swim" situation of reporting on an unfamiliar subject. They were weaned on UP's famous and well-documented (though frequently misappropriated and misquoted) slogan of "Get it first, but FIRST, get it RIGHT." Despite controversy, UP (and later UPI) became

3712-511: Was down to 585 employees. Later that year, UPI filed for bankruptcy for the second time, asking for relief from $ 50 million in debt so that it could be sale-able. In 1992, a group of Saudi investors, ARA Group International (AGI), bought the bankrupt UPI for $ 4 million. By 1998, UPI had fewer than 250 employees and 12 offices. Although the Saudi-based investors claimed to have poured more than $ 120 million into UPI, it had failed to turn

3776-629: Was formed in July 2009 following the merger of Universal Press Syndicate with Andrews McMeel's digital entertainment company Uclick . In late December 2010, it was announced that Dilbert would move from United Feature Syndicate to Universal Uclick beginning in June 2011. Dilbert was with Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication until they severed their relationship with Adams in February 2023. Several newspapers have chosen to replace Dilbert with

3840-530: Was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1,500 abroad. In 1958, it became United Press International after absorbing the International News Service (INS) in May. As either UP or UPI, the agency was among the largest newswire services in the world, competing domestically for about 90 years with

3904-409: Was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service , a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps' lead. Bartholomew succeeded in putting the "I" in UPI in 1958 when UP and INS merged to become United Press International on May 24. The new UPI now had 6,000 employees and 5,000 subscribers, about a thousand of them newspapers. The merger

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3968-574: Was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications , a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon , which also owned The Washington Times and newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, Helen Thomas , resigned her position, after working for UPI for 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 had

4032-554: Was renamed the United Press International Radio Network . But faced with recurring cash shortages and difficulty meeting payroll, the Ruhe-Geissler management sold UPI's foreign photo service and some rights to its US and foreign photos to the Reuters news agency. It also sold UPI's U.S. photo library, which included the archives of predecessor Scripps photo agency Acme and the pictures and negatives of International News Photos,

4096-525: Was syndicated in more than 1,400 newspapers worldwide. Over decades, the syndicate added other well-known comic strips including Ziggy , Cathy , For Better or For Worse , Calvin and Hobbes , The Far Side , FoxTrot , Baldo , The Boondocks , In the Bleachers , Non Sequitur , Stone Soup , Real Life Adventures , Cornered , Liō , Cul De Sac , Thatababy , Wumo , editorial cartoonists and columnists. Universal Uclick

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