Collegiate Press Service (CPS) is currently the name of a commercial
news agency
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supplying stories to
student newspaper
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s. Earlier organizations (now defunct) used the same or similar names in the past.
History of Earlier Organizations
The first organization named Collegiate Press Service began as the news agency 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 ...
(USSPA). CPS was originally based in
Washington, D.C.
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In the mid-1960s, two radical staff members of CPS were purged from the USSPA and established
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 ...
(LNS).
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, 2014) .
When USSPA suffered financial setbacks in the early 1970s (eventually going defunct by 1971), CPS was spun off and became a progressive
alternative news collective in
Denver
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, Colorado.
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"POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IRRITATE CARTOONIST,"
'' Daily Press'' (Apr 03, 1992).
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.
References
Notes
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.
News agencies based in the United States
Student newspapers
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