College Press Service

College Press Service (CPS) is a commercial news agency supplying stories to student newspapers.

It began as the news agency of the United States Student Press Association (USSPA). When USSPA suffered financial setbacks in the early 1970s, CPS 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. In the mid-1960s, radical staff members of CPS split off from the United States Student Press Association and established Liberation News Service (LNS).

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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