[4][5][6] In 2019 PAP announced plans to extend its foreign correspondent network to additional countries in Europe, Caucasus, Latin America and Southeast Asia in order to expand its presence in Central European and global markets.
In 1990, after the fall of communism in Poland, the company was reformed and in 1991 the original PTA was finally merged into PAP to form the present-day Agency.
On 27 December 2023, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz placed PAP and other public media bodies into liquidation after Polish president Andrzej Duda vetoed a bill containing funding for public media bodies; the liquidation was not intended to impact PAP's day-to-day running.
[21] The Daily News Service is updated on seven-days-a-week basis, 24 hours a day, and offers around 1000 articles everyday, mainly on politics, business, economy, foreign affairs, sports, science and education.
[8][22] The business service is prepared by a team of 35 financial editors and several dozen reporters, supported by numerous domestic and foreign correspondents.
[22][24] It also provides video content[25] and infographics service in the form of charts, tables, diagrams, maps, 3D animations and interactive graphics.
[32] For many years the celebrated travel writer Ryszard Kapuściński worked as a field reporter for PAP; his posting as the agency's first Africa correspondent provided the material and inspiration for many of his later writings.
That includes Wojciech Jagielski[33][34] who has won acclaim for his reportage from conflict zones in the Transcaucasus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa, renowned lexicographer and publisher Władysław Kopaliński,[35] author, war correspondent and Poland's ambassador to India Krzysztof Mroziewicz,[36] travel writer and sailor Leonid Teliga[35] as well as journalist, columnist and essayist Leopold Unger[37][38][39] who reported for the agency from Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.