Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)

The alternative news agency began in 1967 as The New Media Project staffed by a cooperative of a dozen political activists in Washington, D.C.In 1968 a schism within the group resulted in the core staff moving operations to New York, led by founders Raymond Mungo and Allen Bloom. The organization originally published a packet of news information twice weeklywhich was sent to subscribers throughout the United States and world up until the organization's demise in 1980. The goal of the organization was to provide an alternative to the mainstream news services--UPI and AP--bydocumenting social and political change and activism.

From the description of Records, 1968-1981. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122612754

Liberation News Service, based in New York and San Francisco, offered subscribers (mostly college and underground papers) news packets twice a week. Journalists around the country supplied LNS with stories on the student and youth movements, the black liberation struggle and the American left. The press kits from this organization are housed at the Temple University Archives.

From the description of Photographs, 1965-1981. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477248055

The Liberation News Service was established by Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo in 1967, after they had been fired from the staff of the U.S. Student Press Association (located in Washington, DC), for their radical political views. In 1968 the LNS moved to New York City, and absorbed the Student Communications Network (founded by the University Christian Movement). The LNS had several hundred subscribers, most college, underground and progressive community newspapers, to which it supplied twice-weekly packets containing current news, features, opinion pieces, poetry, photographs, cartoons and artwork that documented the progressive movements and counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. The LNS print shop made its facilities available to other left-wing organizations. The LNS went out of business in 1981.

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From the guide to the Liberation News Service Photographs, Bulk, 1970-1979, 1965-1981, (Bulk 1970s), (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)