Liberation News Service

Liberation News Service
Company typeNews agency
IndustryUnderground press
PredecessorCollegiate Press Service
FoundedAugust 1967; 57 years ago (1967) in Washington, D.C.
FoundersRay Mungo and Marshall Bloom
DefunctAugust 1981; 43 years ago (1981-08)
FateDefunct
Headquarters
New York City (1968–1981)
Area served
United States
Key people
Allen Young, Marty Jezer David Fenton, Thorne Webb Dreyer, Steve Diamond
ProductsNews bulletins, photographs
Number of employees
8–20

Liberation News Service (LNS) was a New Left, anti-war underground press news agency that distributed news bulletins and photographs to hundreds of subscribing underground, alternative and radical newspapers from 1967 to 1981. Considered the "Associated Press" for the underground press, at its zenith the LNS served more than 500 papers.[1] Founded in Washington, D.C., it operated out of New York City for most of its existence.

  1. ^ "No Success Like Failure". Green Mountain Post Films website. Retrieved 2007-12-05.