Capital News Service (Michigan) Capital News Service (Michigan) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a wire service based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. CNS covers the state capital in Lansing for various member papers from September to early May. The circulation of the combined member papers is one of the largest in the state—larger than the "Detroit Free Press". The service is headed by Eric Freedman, a Pulitzer-winning reporter formerly of "The Detroit News". Correspondents are selected from juniors, seniors and master's students in the School of Journalism by an application process. CNS was founded in 1981 by Michigan Journalism Hall
Robert Lansing , Lansing backed Woodrow Wilson in issuing three notes of protest to the German government. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State following Wilson's second note, which Bryan considered too belligerent. Lansing replaced Bryan, and said in his memoirs that following the "Lusitania" tragedy he always had the "conviction that we would ultimately become the ally of Britain". In 1916 Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence. These agents were initially used to observe the activities of the Central Powers in America, and later to