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It was described by the Stars and Stripes ombudsman as 'a fatal cut”. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Elaine McCusker indicated its funding would be cut and said: “We have essentially decided that, you know, kind of coming into the modern age that newspaper is probably not the best way that we communicate any longer.” The subsidy is more than $15 million a year, which represents approximately half the publication's budget and roughly 0.002 percent of the Department of Defense budget, which was $721,500 million in 2020.

The Wall Street Journal reported in February 2020, that a draft budget would reduce the newspaper's federal support in 2021 under a $5 billion shift to higher priorities in the defense budget. Budget cuts by the Pentagon were again considered in 2016. The paper helps them be better-informed citizens about global geopolitics. Coverage of pay and benefits is of direct concern to service members and their families along with life on base and in the field. The print newspapers provide the news back home to service members who are forward-deployed in areas lacking reliable internet access. In 2013, the paper faced job cuts, printing-schedule changes, a pay-raise freeze and travel limitations for staff under the Federal budget sequestration. Stars and Stripes being delivered to US troops, 2003įunding and relevance in the digital age have threatened the paper's budget. The magazine frequently posted photographs of a young Marilyn Monroe, then known as Norma Jeane Dougherty, which later led her as being named 'Miss Cheesecake 1952' by Stars and Stripes. Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and war correspondent Ernie Pyle was regularly published in the Stars and Stripes before he was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner on Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa. Stories.Īfter Bill Mauldin did his popular 'Up Front' cartoons for the World War II Stars and Stripes, he returned home to a successful career as an editorial cartoonist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Also, during the war, the newspaper published the 53-book series G.I.

Some of the editions were assembled and printed very close to the front in order to get the latest information to the most troops. Again, both newspapermen in uniform and young soldiers, some of whom would later become important journalists, filled the staffs and showed zeal and talent in publishing and delivering the paper on time. On May 2, 1945, Stars and Stripes announced Hitler's death.ĭuring World War II, the newspaper was printed in dozens of editions in several operating theaters. The Stars and Stripes was then an eight-page weekly which reached a peak of 526,000 readers, relying on the improvisational efforts of its staff to get it printed in France and distributed to U.S. Drama critic Alexander Woollcott's essays for Stars and Stripes were collected in his 1919 book, The Command Is Forward. Sports page editor Grantland Rice had a long career in journalism and founded a motion picture studio called Grantland Rice Sportlight. Cyrus Baldridge, its art director and principal illustrator, became a major illustrator of books and magazines, as well as a writer, print maker and stage designer. Harold Ross, editor of the Stars and Stripes, returned home to found The New Yorker magazine. It was published by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919. 1918-July 18 - A Stars and Stripes illustration by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridgeĭuring World War I, the staff, roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporters or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years.

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