International News Service
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International News Service (INS) was a news agency founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909. It merged in 1958 with United Press to become United Press International.
Correspondents who worked for INS include Barry Faris, Pierre J. Huss, William Kinsey Hutchinson, Vann Kennedy, Irving R. Levine, Jack Singer and Anna Louise Strong.
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 September 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.
INS gave its name to the callsign of a New York radio station, WINS.
