Submitter:

Name:Owen Ambur

Email:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net

Organization:

Name:International Press Telecommunications Council

Acronym:IPTC

Description:
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.

Stakeholder(s):

• IPT Board of Directors


• Vincent Baby: Vincent Baby of Thomson Reuters is the Chairman of the IPTC Board since 2011.


• Michael Steidl: Michael Steidl is the Managing Director of the IPTC.


• Stéphane Guérillot: AFP


• Andreas Gebhard: Getty Images


• Guowei Wu: Xinhua


• IPTC Standards Committee: The Standards Committee is IPTC's body for formal approval of all standards and acts as steering group for the technical development of new standards and the ongoing review of all standards in use.


• Stéphane Guérillot: AFP -- Standards Committee Chairperson


• 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: Voting 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.


• IPTC Voting 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


• dapd media holding: Germany


• Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa): Germany


• Getty Images, Inc.: USA


• Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK): Japan


• Keystone: Switzerland


• Korea Press Foundation: Korea


• KUNA Kuwait News Agency: Kuwait


• Kyodo News: Japan


• Marketwire: Canada


• NLA media access limited: UK


• PLUS Coalition: USA


• PR Newswire: UK


• Press Association Ltd: UK


• QNA Qatar News Agency: Qatar


• The Associated Press (AP): USA


• The New York Times Company: USA


• Thomson Reuters: USA


• Tidningarnas Telegrambyra (TT): Sweden


• WAN-Ifra: FR International


• Xinhua News Agency: China


• XML Team Solutions, Inc.: USA


• IPTC Associate Members


• Agence de Presse Belga: Belgium


• Agencia EFE: Spain


• ANA, Athens News Agency: Greece


• AS Norsk Telegrambyrå: Norway


• Athens Techology Center: Greece


• BAPLA: UK


• BVPA: Germany


• Canadian Press: Canada


• Cepic - Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage: Europe


• Commons Machinery in Sweden: Sweden


• Corbis: USA


• EBU - European Broadcasting Union: Europe


• Eidos Media Spa: Italy


• epa - European Pressphoto Agency: Europe


• Fingerpost Ltd: UK


• ITAR-TASS: Russia


• Lusa: Portugal


• Mainstream Data Inc.: USA


• Mecom: Germany


• MENA: Egypt


• Newspaper Association of America (NAA): USA


• Profium Oy: Finland


• RelaxNews: France


• RIA Novosti: Russia


• Ritzau Bureau I's: Denmark


• STA - Slovenian Press Agency: Slovenia


• Suomen Tietotoimisto Oy: Finland


• TMNEWS: Italy


• Transtel Communications Ltd: UK


• TriviumRLG LLC: USA


• IPTC Honorary Members


• Mr Klaus Sprick: (Honorary Member) Germany


• Mr Peter Müller: (Honorary Member) Switzerland