International News Service (INS) was a news agency founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909. It merged in 1959 with United Press to become United Press International. A news agency is an organization journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ... William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ... Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ...

Correspondents who worked for INS include Barry Faris, Pierre J. Huss, Vann Kennedy, Irving R. Levine, Jack Singer and Anna Louise Strong. Pierre John Huss (1903-?) was a journalist and author, best known as a war correspondent during World War II. Huss was for many years chief International News Service (INS) correspondent in Berlin. ... Irving R. Levine (August 26, 1922 - ) is a former journalist for NBC. During his 35-year career, he reported from over two dozen countries, which led to him becoming the first foreign correspondent accredited in the Soviet Union (as a result of which he wrote three best-selling non-fiction... Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was a twentieth-century American journalist. ...

Jack Singer was a war correspondent for the U.S. Navy aboard the USS WASP working for the INS during World War II. The WASP was an aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific in 1942. Jack was one of 193 men that died that day when the ship went down. He was awarded the Purple Heart and had a liberty ship named after him, the USS Jack Singer.