Bloom alternative press collection, 1967-1992.
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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 organizatio...
Amherst College. Class of 1966. Bloom.
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Bloom, Marshall, 1944-1969
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Graduate of Amherst College, 1966. Journalist, editor and key agent in the development of the alternative press in the United States in the 1960s. Chairman of The Amherst Student, a newspaper, 1965; participant in Southern civil rights protests; co-founder of The Southern Courier, a progressive newspaper; student at the London School of Economics, 1966-67. Director, United States Student Press Association, 1967; co-founder, 1967, with Ray Mungo, of Liberation News Service, serving alternative "u...
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