[1] For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai, Hersh, as well as DNS, received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970.
[2] Contributors to DNSI included John Steinbeck IV, John Everingham, Sean Flynn, Don Luce, Thomas C. Fox, Steve Erhart, Crystal Erhart, Gareth Porter, J. L. Rivera, Christopher Beck, Jonathan Unger, Michael Berger, D. E. Ronk, Boris Baczynskj, David Boggett and many others.
[citation needed] The Washington, D.C., office was managed and directed by Dick Berliner, followed by Desmond McAllister, then David Obst, and later Joe Gatins.
DNS was founded in 1968 by young journalists Michael Morrow, Dan Derby, Emerson Manawis, and actor Richard Hughes.
[citation needed] The agency was forced to close in 1973 when it "failed to find adequate financial support for [its] operations.