- published: 03 Jan 2012
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The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.
Established two years after Hearst-competitor E.W. Scripps combined three smaller syndicates under his control into United Press Associations, INS battled the other major newswires. It added a picture service, International News Photos, or INP. The Hearst newsreel series Hearst Metrotone News (1914–1967) was released as International Newsreel from January 1919 to July 1929. Always a distant third to its larger rivals the Associated Press and the United Press, INS combined in 1958 with UP to become UPI. New York City's all-news radio station, WINS originally took its name from INS.
Among those worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, Edwin Newman and Irving R. Levine, who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for INS.Marion Carpenter, the first woman national press photographer to cover Washington, D.C. and the White House, and to travel with a US President, also had worked for the INS.