Editing Collegiate Press Service (section)

=== United States Student Press Association ===
Collegiate Press Service began in 1962 as the news agency of the [[United States Student Press Association]] (USSPA),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nyti.ms/3HJgUzp|title=RISING UNREST|work=The New York Times|date=April 4, 1965|page=191}}</ref> which at the time was receiving support and covert financing from [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] organizations like ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].<ref name="cia">{{cite news|last=Crewdson|first=John M.|date=December 27, 1977|title=C.I.A. established many links to journalists in U.S. and abroad |newspaper=The New York Times|page=1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-many-links-to-journalists-in-us-and-abroad-cias.html|accessdate=January 20, 2009}}</ref><ref>Berlet, p. 282.</ref> CPS was originally based in [[Washington, D.C.]]

As the decade moved along, CPS drifted more [[Progressivism|leftward]], but in the summer of 1967, two [[Far-left politics|radical]] staff members of CPS — [[Ray Mungo]] and [[Marshall Bloom]] — were purged from the USSPA; they immediately established the [[alternative news agency]] [[Liberation News Service]] (LNS).<ref>{{cite book|last=McMillian|first= John Campbell|title=Smoking Typewriters: the Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=2014|ISBN=9780199376469}}</ref>