IPTC Members

IPTC is an organization based on members. The IPTC membership consists of news agencies, news agency alliances, newspaper publishers' organisations, individual newspapers and system vendors. The membership has representatives from all continents except South America

IPTC provides two types of membership:

Nominating members:
this is open to organizations and companies concerned with news collection, distribution and publishing.

Associate members:
this is open to organizations and companies as for the Nominating membership and for system vendors supporting the news industry.

Honorary Members:
this type of membership is awarded to long-time member representatives for their substantial contributions to the IPTC.

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Find below the current members of the IPTC:

Nominating Members

Agence France Presse (afp) France
ANGOP - Agencia AngolaPress Angola
ANSA Italy
Austria Presse Agentur (APA) Austria
BBC Monitoring UK
Business Wire USA
CNW Group Ltd. Canada
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) Germany
Dow Jones & Company USA
Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK) Japan
Keystone Switzerland
Korea Press Foundation Korea
KUNA Kuwait News Agency Kuwait
Kyodo News Japan
Marketwire Canada
Newspaper Association of America (NAA) USA
PLUS Coalition USA
PR Newswire UK
Press Association Ltd UK
SDA/ATS Switzerland
The Associated Press (AP) USA
The New York Times Company USA
Thomson Reuters USA
Tidningarnas Telegrambyra (TT) Sweden
TMNEWS-APCOM Italy
United Press International (UPI) USA
World Association of Newspapers (WAN) International
Xinhua News Agency China
XML Team Solutions, Inc. USA

Associate Members

Agence de Presse Belga Belgium
Agencia EFE Spain
Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) The Netherlands
ANA, Athens News Agency Greece
AS Norsk Telegrambyrå Norway
Atex UK
Athens Techology Center Greece
BAPLA UK
Beijing Founder Electronics China
BVPA Germany
Canadian Press Canada
CCI Europe Denmark
Cepic - Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage Europe
EAST Co., Ltd Japan
EBU - European Broadcasting Union Europe
Eidos Media Spa Italy
epa - European Pressphoto Agency Europe
Fingerpost Ltd UK
Getty Images, Inc. USA
HINA Croatia
IFRA Germany
ITAR-TASS Russia
Lusa Portugal
Magyar Távirati Iroda Rt (MTI) Hungary
Mainstream Data Inc. USA
Mecom Germany
MENA Egypt
Profium Oy Finland
RelaxNews France
RIA Novosti Russia
Ritzau Bureau I's Denmark
Roxen Internet Software Sweden
Suomen Tietotoimisto Oy Finland
Tera Digital Publishing Italy
Transtel Communications Ltd UK

Honorary Members

Mr Klaus Sprick (Honorary Member) Germany
Mr Peter Müller (Honorary Member) Switzerland

ABOUT THE IPTC

Membership Q&A

Questions about IPTC membership and standards? Here are the answers.

How To Join

We have a page full of details about joining the IPTC.

The Work Programme

The IPTC defined a basic work programme for the joint activities of its members. Read the full programme.

More Resources

Publicly available documents with information about the IPTC as an organisation are available on this page.