Military Journalism.

The nearly two million soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) frequently complained that they could get no reliable news from home. The Paris editions of the New York Herald and the Chicago Tribune printed society news rather than sports scores. AEF leaders saw an opportunity to disseminate information about military decorum and orders. Once it was determined that the costs of printing an eight-page weekly could be covered by selling subscriptions and advertising, the AEF began to publish its own newspaper, the Stars and Stripes, on 8 February 1918. It ran through June 1919, for seventy-one weeks, and eventually reached a circulation of more than one hundred thousand. Its staff swelled to more than three hundred. Civilians in Uniform. The newspaper's foremost writers were journalists in civilian life and conducted the paper's business as ordinarily as possible. Harold Ross, who would later become...