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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dispatch_News_Service > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dispatch_News_Service.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_News_Service > Source revision: 1201008537 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American news agency}} {{Refimprove|date=December 2014}} {{Infobox company | name = Dispatch News Service | logo = | type = [News agency](/source/News_agency) | industry = [Underground press](/source/Underground_press) | fate = Defunct | predecessor = | successor = | founded = {{Start date and age|1968}} in [Manila](/source/Manila), [Philippines](/source/Philippines) | founders = Michael Morrow, Dan Derby, Emerson Manawis, and Richard Hughes | defunct = {{End date and age|1973 }} | hq_location_city = [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) | hq_location_country = | area_served = | key_people = [John Steinbeck IV](/source/John_Steinbeck_IV), [John Everingham](/source/John_Everingham), [Sean Flynn](/source/Sean_Flynn_(photojournalist)), [Don Luce](/source/Don_Luce_(activist)), [Gareth Porter](/source/Gareth_Porter), [Jonathan Unger](/source/Jonathan_Unger) | products = News bulletins, photographs | owner = | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | parent = }} '''Dispatch News Service International''' ('''DNSI''') was an [alternative news agency](/source/alternative_news_agency) that operated from 1968 to 1973. Initially focusing on in-depth reporting on the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War), DNS as it was commonly known, established its main operations in [Saigon](/source/Saigon), [South Vietnam](/source/South_Vietnam). Reporters traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, reporting from various capitals, but its focus remained the countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Among the reporting distributed by DNS was [Seymour Hersh](/source/Seymour_Hersh)'s [My Lai massacre](/source/My_Lai_massacre) story. For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai, Hersh, as well as DNS, received the [Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_International_Reporting) in 1970.{{cite web|title='I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer'|publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/article/i-sent-them-good-boy-and-they-made-him-murderer|accessdate=2020-08-23}} Contributors to DNSI included [John Steinbeck IV](/source/John_Steinbeck_IV), [John Everingham](/source/John_Everingham), [Sean Flynn](/source/Sean_Flynn_(photojournalist)), Don Luce, Thomas C. Fox, [Steve Erhart](/source/Steve_Erhart), [Crystal Erhart](/source/Crystal_Erhart), [Gareth Porter](/source/Gareth_Porter), [J. L. Rivera](/source/J._L._Rivera), Christopher Beck, [Jonathan Unger](/source/Jonathan_Unger), Michael Berger, [D. E. Ronk](/source/D._E._Ronk), [Boris Baczynskj](/source/Boris_Baczynskj), [David Boggett](/source/David_Boggett) and many others.{{cn|date=January 2024}} The Washington, D.C., office was managed and directed by Dick Berliner, followed by Desmond McAllister, then [David Obst](/source/David_Obst), and later Joe Gatins. == History == DNS was founded in 1968 by young journalists Michael Morrow, Dan Derby, Emerson Manawis, and actor Richard Hughes.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1901&dat=19940723&id=xdghAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jp8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1441,3938500 |title=Richard Hughes |last=Blumenthal |first=Ralph |newspaper=[The Daytona Beach News-Journal](/source/The_Daytona_Beach_News-Journal) |agency=New York Times News Service |page=6G |date=July 23, 1994 |accessdate=December 31, 2014}} The affiliated '''Dispatch News Service International''' was incorporated in [Manila](/source/Manila), [Philippines](/source/Philippines) in 1968; the incorporators were Morrow, Emerson Manawis, Mariano D. Manawis, Josefina A. Manawis, and Emilie A. Manawis.{{cn|date=January 2024}} The agency was forced to close in 1973 when it "failed to find adequate financial support for [its] operations."{{cite book|chapter=Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality|title=Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1|editor-first=Ken|editor-last=Wachsberger|date=2011|series=Voices from the Underground|publisher= [Michigan State University Press](/source/Michigan_State_University_Press)|first=Chip|last=Berlet|isbn=978-0870139833|page=286}} == Bureaus == === International === DNS had bureaus and/or representative offices in the following countries with its respective manager or representative: * [Taipei](/source/Taipei), [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan) — Christine Lin * [Vientiane](/source/Vientiane), [Laos](/source/Laos) — Crystal Eastin * [Sydney](/source/Sydney), [Australia](/source/Australia) — Richard Anderson, James Falk and Peter Viola * [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) — Jacques Leslie * [Macau](/source/Macau) — Stephen Thomas * [Bangkok](/source/Bangkok), [Thailand](/source/Thailand) — Frank Sommerville === Domestic === In the United States, DNS had bureaus and/or representative offices in the following cities: * San Francisco — Tom Donaldson and Kitty Wynn * Los Angeles — Steven Nichols, Sally Benson and Lynn Shavelson * Boston — John Thompson * New York City — Richard Greenbaum * Seattle — Peter Morrow == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/DG108DNS/dg108dns.Images.htm|title=Images of Vietnam, Laos ... from the Dispatch News Service International Records 1970–73 (DG 108)|last=Yoder|first=Anne|date=Summer 2010|work=[Swarthmore College Peace Collection](/source/Swarthmore_College_Peace_Collection)|accessdate=19 June 2013}} {{Authority control}} Category:1968 establishments Category:1973 disestablishments Category:News agencies based in the United States --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dispatch News Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_News_Service) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_News_Service?action=history)). 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