Collegiate Press Service

US news agency

Collegiate Press ServiceType| News agency

|

Industry| Student publications
Founded| Early 1960s
Headquarters|

Washington, D.C., then Denver

Area served

| United States
Products| News articles

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[edit]

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.[citation needed]

## Notable staff members[edit]

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

## References[edit]

### Notes[edit]

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. ^ a b Stratton, Jim. "POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IRRITATE CARTOONIST," Daily Press (Apr 03, 1992).

### Sources[edit]

* 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.

This journalism-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[c.]: circa
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template