An alternative news agency (or alternative news service) operates in a similar fashion to a commercial

news agency A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswir ...

, but defines itself as an alternative to commercial or "mainstream" operations. They span the political spectrum, but most frequently are progressive or radical left. Sometimes they combine the services of a

and a news syndicate. Among the primary clients are alternative weekly newspapers.

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All Headline News All Headline News (AHN) is a United States-based news agency or wire service. It was founded in 2000 by W. Jeffrey Brown as an internet news search engine. It had grown to become a major worldwide online news wire service, providing news and oth ...

Alternet AlterNet is a left-leaning online news outlet. It was launched in 1997 by the Independent Media Institute. In 2018, the website was acquired by owners of '' Raw Story''. Coverage Coverage is divided into several special sections related to progr ...

Association of Alternative Newsmedia The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) is a trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. It provides services to many generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada. A ...

/AltWeeklies.com * Choike.org (North/South issues) *

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. History of Earlier Organizations The first ...

(in its commercial incarnation) * Compass Direct * Inter Press Service (North/South issues) * Mathaba News Agency * Openreporter * Pacific Free Press * Pressat *

Pacific News Service Pacific News Service (PNS) was an American nonprofit alternative news media organization. PNS ceased operations in 2017. The organization was located in Berkeley, California. History PNS was founded in 1969 by historian and sociologist Fr ...

* The Reggae News Agency * Syndicated News * Scoop Analytics

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*Alternative Press Features *

Atlantic Free Press Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, Netherlands and published over 13,000 articles from over 250 progressive writers worldwide until it cl ...

Associated Negro Press The Associated Negro Press (ANP) was an American news service founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois by Claude Albert Barnett. The ANP had correspondents, writers, reporters in all major centers of the black population in the United States of Americ ...

(1919–1964) * Appalachian News Service (from c. 1974) *

— student-run project of the

United States Student Press Association The United States Student Press Association (USSPA) was a national organization of campus newspapers and editors active in the 1960s. It held a national convention of college student newspaper staff each summer at a member college campus, and a n ...

(Washington, DC); transformed into independent collective (Denver, Colorado) * Community Press Features (from c. 1971) *

Dispatch News Service Dispatch News Service International is the news agency founded in 1968 by young journalists Michael Morrow, Dan Derby, Emerson Manawis, and actor Richard Hughes. Other reporters that either actively joined the news agency as full-time reporters, ...

— the original outlet to purchase

Seymour Hersh Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American Investigative journalism, investigative journalist and political writer. Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam Wa ...

's story about the

My Lai Massacre My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Market ...

during the Vietnam War * Earth News Service (from c. 1972); later renamed Newscript Dispatch Service * FPS (from c. 1971) — high school student news service with a sanitized name: "Free Public Schools" * Her Say (from c. 1977) — founded by Marlene Edmunds of Zodiac News Service * The International Human Press (2010– 2020) — founded as a

user-generated User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is any form of content, such as images, videos, text, testimonials, and audio, that has been posted by users on online platforms such as social media, discussion f ...

news site by college students from Arizona State University,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

, and

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...

Liberation News Service Liberation News Service (LNS) was a New Left, anti-war underground press news agency that distributed news bulletins and photographs to hundreds of subscribing underground, alternative and radical newspapers from 1967 to 1981. Considered the "Asso ...

(1967–1981) — splintered off from

* New Liberation News Service * New York News Service (from c. 1973) — founded by Rex Weiner and Deanne Stillman * People's Translation Service (from c. 1972) * Tricontinental News Service (from c. 1973) *

Underground Press Syndicate The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS), was a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines that operated from 1966 into the late 1970s. As it evolved, the Underground Press Syndicate crea ...

; renamed

Alternative Press Syndicate The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS), was a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines that operated from 1966 into the late 1970s. As it evolved, the Underground Press Syndicate crea ...

(1966–1978) * Zodiac News service (from c. 1972) * Zoo World Newservice (from c. 1972)

References

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''Voices from the Underground (Vol. 2): A Directory of Resources and Sources on the Vietnam Era Underground Press''
Has article about the Underground Press Syndicate and other period alternative news services. Alternative press News agencies

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