Pacific News Service Explained

Pacific News Service
Type:News agency
Founders:Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell
Fate:Defunct,
Location City:Berkeley, California
Key People:Sandy Close
Area Served:(1969–1974) Far East
(1974–2017) California
Industry:News media
Products:Wire service
Subsid:New America Media (1996–2017)
Youth Outlook magazine
Homepage:[1]

Pacific News Service (PNS) was an American nonprofit alternative news media organization. PNS ceased operations in 2017.[2]

The organization was located in Berkeley, California.[3]

History

PNS was founded in 1969 by historian and sociologist Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell, author, journalist and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] The original mission of PNS was to supply mainstream newspapers with an independent expert sources and reporting on the United States' role in Indochina during the Vietnam War.[5]

In 1974 after the Vietnam War ended, PNS changed its objective from covering the Far East to the United States, especially California, under the guidance of Executive Editor Sandy Close.

PNS operated a news-wire service, produced documentary films and television shows, and published Youth Outlook, a monthly news magazine by and about young people.[6] PNS focused on publishing stories written by and about those on the margins of society.

In 1995, PNS editor Sandy Close received the MacArthur Genius Award for her work in giving "voice to the voiceless" through PNS.[7]

New America Media was founded by PNS in 1996, and served as a clearinghouse for news and feature stories from and in America's ethnic media.

On November 1, 2017, the board of directors announced that New America Media and PNS would cease operations by November 30, 2017.[8] New America Media executive director Sandy Close said that the reason for the closure was, "we grew too fast, and were reluctant to cut off programs after their funding expired. We reached a point where we were not sustainable, as currently constituted."[8]

Notable contributors

Some noted contributors include:

See also

External links

past pages available via Wayback Machine: www.pacificnews.org.

Contributors

Notes and References

  2. Web site: Pacific News Service closes, but lessons continue. Hartlaub. Peter. 2017-11-27. . en-US. 2019-01-01.
  3. http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=47 "Pacific News Service History"
  4. News: New America Media Is Closing—and That's Bad News for All American Media. Walsh. Joan. 2017-11-03. The Nation. 2019-01-01. en-US. 0027-8378. 2019-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20190102050818/https://www.thenation.com/article/new-america-media-is-closing-and-thats-bad-news-for-all-american-media/. dead.
  5. News: Franz Schurmann, Cold War Expert on China, Dies at 84. Weber. Bruce. 2010-08-26. The New York Times. 2019-01-01. en-US. 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: New America Media announces closure. New America Media. 2017-11-10. Compton Herald. en-US. 2019-01-01. 2019-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20190102094521/https://comptonherald.org/new-america-media-announces-closure/. dead.
  7. Web site: Sandy Close. www.macfound.org - MacArthur Foundation. 2019-01-01.
  8. Web site: Pacific News Service dba New America Media Announces Closure of Organization. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107015649/http://newamericamedia.org/2017/11/pacific-news-service-dba-new-america-media-announces-closure-of-organization.php. usurped. November 7, 2017. New America Media. 3 November 2017. en.
  9. http://highbrowmagazine.com/dangers-us-3foreign-85intervention Dangers of U.S. Foreign Intervention

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