Editing Stars and Stripes (newspaper) (section)

=== World War I ===
[[File:The last issue of the WWI Stars and Stripes June 13 1919.jpg|thumb|alt=Front page of a newspaper| The last issue of the WWI ''Stars and Stripes'' on June 13, 1919]]
[[File:1918-July 18 -- Stars and Stripes - illustration by Cyrus LeRoyBaldridge.jpg|thumb|July 19, 1918 -- A ''Stars and Stripes'' illustration by [[Cyrus Leroy Baldridge]]]]
During [[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. It was published by the [[American Expeditionary Forces]] (AEF) from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.<ref name="Library of Congress p. ">{{harvnb|Library of Congress|2018|p=}}</ref> [[Harold Ross]], editor of the ''Stars and Stripes'', returned home to found ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lipsky |first=Seth |date=2020-09-07 |title=Opinion {{!}} I Hope American Soldiers Read Stars and Stripes Forever |language=en-US |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-hope-american-soldiers-read-stars-and-stripes-forever-11599517781 |access-date=2020-09-08 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> [[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.<ref>{{Citation |title=1918-1919: A Talented Editorial Staff |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/articles-and-essays/behind-the-scenes/a-talented-editorial-staff/ |work=The Stars and Stripes |access-date=April 25, 2017 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] Serial and Government Publications Division.}}</ref> Drama critic [[Alexander Woollcott]]'s essays for ''Stars and Stripes'' were collected in his 1919 book, ''The Command Is Forward''.

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.
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