How To Join the IPTC
Why to join:
The Management
Committee stated the objective of the IPTC as:
"To establish and
maintain an open, apolitical international forum to
promote and enable the exchange
of news information
in an efficient manner, while maintaining the highest
technical quality. At the same time taking advantage
of the advances in telecommunication and computing
technology."
To meet this objective, the IPTC
is looking forward and needs the skills and ideas of
a worldwide
membership to ensure that the essential issues are
identified and solved on time.
The reasons for being an IPTC member include:
- IPTC
is the only organisation that addresses the
news industry concerns for standardisation of information
transfer formats.
- IPTC is an organisation concerned
with news agencies and their customers' information
transfer problems.
- IPTC
fosters exposure to business ideas used around
the world to distribute news.
- IPTC encourages personal relationships
among peers from around the world.
- IPTC provides a world news lobby
voice for standardisation of telecommunications
services.
- IPTC allows members to request
research and development in areas of specific interest
to their business
activities.
The IPTC meets at
least 3 times a year when its Standards Committee and
working parties develop their ideas that are subsequently
endorsed by the Management Committee and at the Annual
General Meeting held each year.
Details about IPTC membership:
IPTC provides two types of
membership:
- Nominating members: this is open
to organizations and companies concerned with news
collection, distribution and publishing.
Nominating members may send up to 3 persons per Contributory Unit (which
is equal to a share) to a meeting, one or more can be subscribed. Nominating
member representatives are eligible to vote at General Meetings, Committees
and all Working Parties of the IPTC.
- Associate members: this is open
to organizations and companies as for the Nominating
membership and for system vendors supporting the
news industry.
Associate members may send one person to the meetings, but they receive all
papers and other material. Associate member representatives are only eligible
to vot at working parties, not at General Meetings and Committees.
A News industry publisher is eligible to join either as a voting Nominating
Member or as a non-voting Associate Member while system vendors are only
accepted as Associate Members.
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