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The International Press Telecommunications Council, based in Windsor, UK, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world.
Currently about 55 companies and organisations from the news industry are members of the IPTC, they are drawn from all continents except South America.
The IPTC was established in 1965 by a group of news organisations including the Alliance Européenne des Agences de Presse, ANPA (now NAA), FIEJ (now WAN) and the North American News Agencies (a joint committee of Associated Press, Canadian Press and United Press International) to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the World's Press.
Since the late 1970's IPTC's activities have primarily focussed on developing and publishing Industry Standards for the interchange of news data.
IPTC Members
- Agence France Presse (afp), France
- ANSA, Italy
- Associated Mediabase Limited, UK
- Austria Presse Agentur (APA), Austria
- BBC Monitoring, United Kingdom
- Business Wire, USA
- Canada NewsWire Ltd, Canada
- Canadian Press, Canada
- CCNMatthews, Canada
- CINTEC, Hong Kong
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), Germany
- Dialog / NewsEdge Inc, USA
- Dow Jones & Company, USA
- European Alliance of News Agencies, Europe
- Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK), Japan
- Keystone, Switzerland
- Kyodo News Services, Japan
- Newspaper Association of America (NAA), USA
- The Press Association, UK
- PR Newswire Association, UK and USA
- Reuters Limited, UK
- SDA/ATS, Switzerland
- The Associated Press (AP), USA
- The New York Times Company, USA
- Tidningarnas Telegrambyra (TT), Sweden
- TMNEWS-APCOM, Italy
- United Press International (UPI), USA
- World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
External links
- Opanda IExif - IPTC Viewer for Windows Local folder & Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox (http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html)
- The International Press Telecommunications Council (http://www.iptc.org/pages/index.php)
- NewsML (http://www.newsml.org)
- IPTC Recommendation 7901 - The Text Transmission Format (http://www.iptc.org/IPTC7901)
- The IPTC-NAA standards (http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html)
- NAA/IPTC Header Codes (http://www.ap.org/apserver/userguide/codes.htm)