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Stars and Stripes
	The July 27, 2005 front page of; Stars and Stripes (Mideast Edition)
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	U.S. Department of Defense
Founded	1861
Headquarters	Washington D.C., United States
Website	http://www.stripes.com

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Stars and Stripes is an independent news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests regularly reports. In addition to its website, Stars and Stripes reports on matters affecting military service members and publishes five daily newspaper editions for the United States Armed Forces serving overseas. The European, Mideast, Okinawa, Japan, and Korea editions are also available as free downloads in electronic format.

History

Creation

On 9 November 1861, during the American Civil War, soldiers of the 11th, 18th, and 29th Illinois Regiments set up camp in Bloomfield, Missouri. Finding the local newspaper's office empty, they decided to print a newspaper about their activities. They called it the Stars and Stripes. Today, the Stars & Stripes Museum/Library Association is located in Bloomfield.^[1]

World War I

During World War I, the staff. roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporter or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years. Harold Ross, editor of the Stars and Stripes, returned home to found The New Yorker magazine. 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. Sports page editor Grantland Rice had a long career in journalism and founded a motion picture studio called Grantland Rice Sportlight.^[2] Drama critic Alexander Woollcott's essays for Stars and Stripes were collected in his book, The Command Is Forward (1919).

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. troops.

World War II

During World War II, the newspaper was printed in dozens of editions in several operating theaters. 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. Some of the editions were assembled and printed very close to the front in order to get the latest information to the most troops. Also, during the war, the newspaper published the 53-book series G.I. Stories.

After Bill Mauldin did his popular "Willie and Joe" cartoons for the WWII Stars and Stripes, he returned home for a successful career as an editorial cartoonist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Former Stars and Stripes staffers also include 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney and Steve Kroft, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein, comic book illustrator Tom Sutton, painter and cartoonist Paul Fontaine, author and television news correspondent Tony Zappone, cartoonist Vernon Grant (A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo), Hollywood photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's Wall Street Week, Louis Rukeyser.

A photograph in Stars and Stripes loosely inspired the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew in the 1965 novel and the 1967 film, The Dirty Dozen.

The newspaper has been published continuously in Europe since 1942 and in the Pacific since 1945.

Current

Stars and Stripes is the only independent source of daily printed military news and information distributed at U.S. military installations in Europe and Mideast and East Asia. Stars and Stripes newspaper averages 40–48 pages each day and is published in tabloid format. The newspaper employs civilian reporters, and U.S. military senior non-commissioned officers as reporters, at a number of locations around the world and is read by over 350,000 people. Stars and Stripes also serves independent military news and information to an online audience of about 400,000 unique visitors per month, 60 to 70 percent of whom are located in the United States.

hilter is so cool i believe that he will live on forever says alex withell.

In 2009, "Stars and Stripes" launched the blog "Stripes Central" (http://blogs.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central) from the Washington, DC, bureau. Content is written by the Washington bureau's reporters: Leo Shane, III; Kevin Baron; Jeff Schogol; and Megan McCloskey.

Stars and Stripes is a non-appropriated fund (NAF) organization, only partially subsidized by the Department of Defense. A large portion of its operating costs is earned through the sale of advertising and subscriptions. Unique among the many military publications, Stars and Stripes operates as a First Amendment newspaper and is part of the newly formed Defense Media Activity. The other entities encompassed by the Defense Media Activity (the Pentagon Channel and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, for example), are command publications of the Department of Defense; only Stars and Stripes maintains complete editorial independence.

Stars and Stripes is in the process of digitizing its historic editions. Newspaper microfilm from 1943 to 1999 is being restored and rendered into searchable format by Heritage Microfilm and integrated into an archives website, slated to become available in early February 2009.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ http://www.starsandstripesmuseumlibrary.org/
^ "1918-1919: A Talented Editorial Staff", The Stars and Stripes, Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. American Memory, retrieved August 28, 2009

External links

[1] ttp://www.starsandstripesmuseumlibrary.org/

[2] "1918-1919: A Talented Editorial Staff", The Stars and Stripes, Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. American Memory, retrieved August 28, 2009

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 ''Stars and Stripes'' is the only independent source of daily printed military news and information distributed at U.S. military installations in [[Europe]] and [[Asia|Mideast and East Asia]]. ''Stars and Stripes'' newspaper averages 40–48 pages each day and is published in [[tabloid]] format. The newspaper employs civilian reporters, and U.S. military senior non-commissioned officers as reporters, at a number of locations around the world and is read by over 350,000 people. ''Stars and Stripes'' also serves independent military news and information to an online audience of about 400,000 unique visitors per month, 60 to 70 percent of whom are located in the United States.
-hilter is so cool i believe that he will live on forever.
+hilter is so cool i believe that he will live on forever says alex withell.
 In 2009, "Stars and Stripes" launched the blog "Stripes Central" (http://blogs.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central) from the Washington, DC, bureau. Content is written by the Washington bureau's reporters: [[Leo Shane, III]]; [[Kevin Baron]]; [[Jeff Schogol]]; and [[Megan McCloskey]].