Collegiate Press Service

Collegiate Press Service (CPS) is currently the name of a commercial news agency supplying stories to student newspapers. Earlier organizations (now defunct) used the same or similar names in the past.

Collegiate Press Service
TypeNews agency
IndustryStudent publications
FoundedEarly 1960s
Headquarters
Washington, D.C., then Denver
Area served
United States
ProductsNews articles

History of Earlier Organizations

The first organization named Collegiate Press Service began as the news agency of the United States Student Press Association (USSPA).[1] CPS was originally based in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1960s, two radical staff members of CPS were purged from the USSPA and established Liberation News Service (LNS).[2]

When USSPA suffered financial setbacks in the early 1970s (eventually going defunct by c. 1971), CPS was spun off and became a progressive alternative news collective in Denver, Colorado.[3]

This iteration of the CPS later folded, as well, selling its name to the commercial enterprise, and distributing funds from the sale to progressive groups in Denver.

Notable staff members

Political cartoonist Ed Stein was co-publisher of CPS during the period that it was based in Denver.[3]

References

Notes
  1. "RISING UNREST," New York Times (April 4, 1965), p. 191.
  2. McMillan, John Campbell. Smoking Typewriters: the Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780199376469.
  3. Stratton, Jim. "POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IRRITATE CARTOONIST," Daily Press (Apr 03, 1992).

Sources
  • Berlet, Chip. 2011. “Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality,” In Ken Wachsberger, ed., Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Vol. 1, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univ. Press, pp. 267–297.
  • McMillan, John Campbell. 2014. Smoking typewriters: the Sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America.
  • Mungo, Raymond. 2012. Famous long ago: my life and hard times with Liberation News Service. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Wachsberger, Ken. 2012. Voices from the underground: Insider histories of the Vietnam era underground press. Tempe, Ariz: Mica's Press.


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