College Press Service
History
College Press Service was an idea developed at the conferences of the National Student Association (NSA) by editors of college campus newspapers who met at annual conferences of the student-controlled organization.
The original organization was called the United States Student Press Association (USSPA).
An independent College Press Service began as the news agency of USSPA.
In the mid-1960s, progressive leftists staff members of College Press Service split off from the United States Student Press Association and established Liberation News Service (LNS). See also: Ray Mungo
When USSPA suffered financial setbacks in the early 1970s, Collège Press Service was spun off and became a progressive alternative news collective in Denver, Colorado. It, too, later folded, selling its name to the commercial enterprise, and distributing the funds to progressive groups in Denver.
Disambiguation
College Press Service 1 defunct (Publication of the United States Student Press Association) College Press Service 2 defunct (Independent Progressive News Collective based in Denver, CO) College Press Service 3 current (A commercial news agency supplying stories to student newspapers)
References
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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