An alternative news agency (or alternative news service) operates in a similar fashion to a commercial news agency, but defines itself as an alternative to commercial or "mainstream" operations. They span the political spectrum, but most frequently are progressive or radical left. Sometimes they combine the services of a news agency and a news syndicate. Among the primary clients are alternative weekly newspapers. Examples Active All Headline News Alternet Association of Alternative Newsmedia/AltWeeklies.com Choike.org (North/South issues) Collegiate Press Service (in its commercial incarnation) Compass Direct Inter Press Service (North/South issues) Mathaba News Agency Openreporter Pacific Free Press Pressat Pacific News Service The Reggae News Agency Syndicated News Scoop Analytics Defunct Alternative Press Features Atlantic Free Press Associated Negro Press (1919–1964) Appalachian News Service (from c. 1974) Collegiate Press Service — student-run project of the United States Student Press Association (Washington, DC); transformed into independent collective (Denver, Colorado) Community Press Features (from c. 1971) Dispatch News Service — the original outlet to purchase Seymour Hersh's story about the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War Earth News Service (from c. 1972); later renamed Newscript Dispatch Service FPS (from c. 1971) — high school student news service with a sanitized name: "Free Public Schools" Her Say (from c. 1977) — founded by Marlene Edmunds of Zodiac News Service The International Human Press (2010– 2020) — founded as a user-generated news site by college students from Arizona State University, University of Washington, and Tulane University Liberation News Service (1967–1981) — splintered off from Collegiate Press Service New Liberation News Service New York News Service (from c. 1973) — founded by Rex Weiner and Deanne Stillman People's Translation Service (from c. 1972) Tricontinental News Service (from c. 1973) Underground Press Syndicate; renamed Alternative Press Syndicate (1966–1978) Zodiac News service (from c. 1972) Zoo World Newservice (from c. 1972) See also Alternative media References Voices from the Underground (Vol. 2): A Directory of Resources and Sources on the Vietnam Era Underground Press. Has article about the Underground Press Syndicate and other period alternative news services. Alternative press News agencies