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... as a membership organisation

The IPTC, based in London, UK, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers 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.
You can follow the IPTC on Twitter at @IPTC

IPTC Now

Currently more than 60 companies, organisations and associations from the news industry are members of the IPTC, they are drawn from all continents except South America and Oceania. Find all current members on this page.

Questions about IPTC membership - here you can find the answers: download and review our "Membership Q&A" document.

More on IPTC membership can be found on the "How to Join" page.

 
Vincent Baby, IPTC Chairman
Vincent Baby of Thomson Reuters is the Chairman of the IPTC Board since 2011.
 
Michael Steidl, Managing Director
Michael Steidl is the Managing Director of the IPTC.

IPTC History

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 exchange of news data of all common media types.
 

IPTC as a company

The IPTC is registered as a private company limited-by-guarantee at the Companies House for England. The registered name is "Comité International des Télécommunications de Presse", the registration number is 1010968 and the registered office is 10 Portland Business Centre, Datchet, Slough, Berks, SL3 9EG. The company is not registered for VAT.

"International Press Telecommunications Council" is the business name of the company and the business address (to where all postal mail should be sent) is:
20 Garrick Street
London, WC2E 9BT
United Kingdom

On the Board of Directors are:
Vincent Baby, Director, Chairman of the Board
Andreas Gebhard, Director
Walter Grolimund, Director
Stéphane Guérillot, Director
Tae-sung Jung, Director
Michael Steidl, Managing Director
Amy Sweigert, Director
Helge Viehof, Director

 
 
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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.