PA Sport is part of the PA Group of information companies. At the heart of the PA Group is The Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland.

The Press Association was founded in 1868 by a group of provincial newspaper proprietors to provide a London-based service of news-collecting and reporting from around the British Isles.

The news agency's founders sought to produce a more accurate and reliable alternative to the monopoly service of the telegraph companies. Now more than 130 years later the company has evolved into PA Group, an assembly of businesses supplying multimedia news and information across the media industry. PA Group is still owned by national and regional newspaper groups and adheres to its original values of speed, accuracy and impartiality.

In the media industry today, The Press Association's standing and reputation as a national news agency remains unmatched.

Editorial Values

The core editorial values of The Press Association can be summed up by the words: fast, fair and accurate. All are equally important: The Press Association does not sacrifice accuracy or balance for the sake of speed.

These are guiding principles for everything The Press Association reports, photographs, writes or broadcasts and they underpin the agency's reputation for journalistic integrity.

As The Press Association's official history says:

"Throughout the media industry, the PA has a reputation for speed, accuracy, fairness and flexibility. It does not have any political views. It writes no opinionated editorials - or editorials of any kind whatsoever. It does not campaign or crusade. It simply gathers the news and pictures and distributes them as fast as modern communications systems will allow."

Everyday, PA Sport strives to maintain and enhance these unique values, which we feel are as relevant to sport as they are to other walks of life.

To learn more about the editorial values of PA Sport why not contact us.

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