Editing Guadalcanal campaign (section)

==News reporting==
The Guadalcanal campaign was the subject of a large amount of high-quality reporting. News agencies sent some of their most talented writers, as it was the first major American offensive combat operation of the war.<ref name=toll120>{{cite book |title=The Conquering Tide |publisher=W. W. Norton |first=Ian W. |last=Toll |year=2015 |pages=120–121 |chapter=Four |author-link=Ian W. Toll}}</ref> [[Richard Tregaskis]], who wrote for [[International News Service]], gained fame with the publication of his bestselling ''[[Guadalcanal Diary (book)|Guadalcanal Diary]]'' in 1943.<ref>[[Richard Tregaskis|Tregaskis, Richard]]. ''[[Guadalcanal Diary (book)|Guadalcanal Diary]]''. New York: Modern Library, 2000. {{ISBN|0-679-64023-1}} {{OCLC|43109810}}</ref> [[Hanson Baldwin]], a Navy correspondent, filed stories for ''[[The New York Times]]'' and won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his coverage of the early days of World War II.<ref name=toll120/> Tom Yarbrough wrote for the [[Associated Press]], Bob Miller for the [[United Press]], [[John Hersey]] for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', [[Ira Wolfert]] for the [[North American Newspaper Alliance]] (his series of articles about the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal won him a Pulitzer Prize), Sergeant James Hurlbut for the Marine Corps, and Mack Morriss for [[Yank magazine|''Yank'']] magazine.<ref name=toll120/> Commander Vandegrift placed few restrictions on the reporters who were generally allowed to go wherever they wanted and write what they wanted.<ref name=toll120/>