Dispatch News Service International Records
Dates
- Creation: 1968-1973
Creator
- Dispatch News Service International (Organization)
- Ackland, Len (Correspondent, Person)
- Berliner, Richard A. (Correspondent, Person)
- Branfman, Fred (Correspondent, Person)
- Eastin, Crystal (Correspondent, Person)
- Everingham, John (Correspondent, Person)
- Fox, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1944- (Correspondent, Person)
- Gatins, Joseph (Correspondent, Person)
- Hackler, Tim (Correspondent, Person)
- Howell, Leon (Correspondent, Person)
- Luce, Don (Correspondent, Person)
- Manawis, Emerson A. (Correspondent, Person)
- McAllister, Desmond (Correspondent, Person)
- Morrow, Michael (Correspondent, Person)
- Porter, Gareth, 1942- (Correspondent, Person)
- Ronk, Donald E. (Correspondent, Person)
- Unger, Jonathan (Correspondent, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None.
Conditions Governing Use
None.
Historical
Dispatch News Service International (DNSI), was formed as a writers' cooperative in Saigon in 1968 by Michael Morrow and other freelance writers with the intention to provide Westerners with a deeper understanding of the people, problems, and cultures of Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Dispatch was incorporated in 1968 in Manila, the Philippines. The Washington, D.C. office opened in 1969 and was managed by Richard Berliner. There were additional bureaus in Saigon and New York.
Seymour Hersh, with DNSI as distributor, won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 for his story on the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam. Don Luce, an aid worker with International Voluntary Services and reporter for DNSI, broke the story of the "tiger cage" prison cells on Con Son island in Vietnam.
For financial reasons, DNSI suspended operations in March 1973.
Extent
13.75 linear ft. (11 record cartons)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was donated.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift of Richard Berliner, Dispatch News Service, 1977.
Separated Materials
Photos and negatives were removed to the Photograph Collection. Some of the negatives have been scanned and may be viewed online.
Bibliographic References
Legal Status
Copyright to the Dispatch International administrative records created by the organization has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed. This finding aid was created by Andrew Ciampo, August 2009.
Subject
- Dispatch News Service International (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Scanned Images of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, East Pakistan, and Latin America, by Dispatch International Photographers
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