Editing Ernie Pyle (section)

===Staff reporter and aviation columnist===
In 1923, Pyle moved to Washington, D.C., to join the staff as a reporter for the ''[[The Washington Daily News|Washington Daily News]]'', a new Scripps-Howard [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] newspaper, and soon became a copy editor as well.<ref name=GS279/> Pyle was paid $30 a week for his services, beginning a career with Scripps-Howard that would continue for the remainder of his life. When Pyle joined the ''Daily News'' all the editors were young, including editor-in-chief John M. Gleissner, Lee G. Miller (who became a lifelong friend of Pyle)<ref name=Albright10/><ref>Miller later became Pyle's biographer and the author of ''An Ernie Pyle Album – Indiana to Ie Shima'' (1946). See {{cite journal| author=Owen V. Johnson and Holly Hays| title =Wrestling with Fame: Ernie Pyle and the Pulitzer Prize | journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =28 | issue =2 | pages =47 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Spring 2016}}</ref>
Charles M. Egan, Willis "June" Thornton Jr., and Paul McCrea.<ref>Miller (1946), pages 16–17.</ref>

By 1926, Pyle and his wife, Geraldine "Jerry", had quit their jobs. In ten weeks the couple traveled more than 9,000 miles across the United States in a [[Ford Model T]] [[Roadster (automobile)|roadster]].<ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', page 31.</ref><ref name=Price>{{cite book | author= Nelson Price | title =Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman | publisher =Guild Press of Indiana | year =1997 | location =Carmel, Indiana | page=263 | isbn =1578600065}}</ref> After briefly working in New York City for the ''[[The Evening World|Evening World]]'' and the ''[[New York Post]]'', Pyle returned to the ''Daily News'' in December 1927 to begin work on one of the country's first and its best-known [[aviation]] column, which he wrote for four years. Pyle's column appeared in syndication for the Scripps-Howard newspapers from 1928 to 1932. Although he never became an [[aircraft pilot]], Pyle flew about {{convert|100000|mi|km}} as a passenger.<ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', pages 32, 34.</ref><ref name=JohnsonHays47>Johnson and Hays, page 47.</ref> As [[Amelia Earhart]] later said, "Any aviator who didn't know Pyle was a nobody."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://journalism.indiana.edu/archive/news/041505pyle/ |title=Ernie Pyle: 60 years after his death |author=Owen V. Johnson |publisher=Indiana University School of Journalism |date=April 15, 2005 |access-date=June 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042800/http://journalism.indiana.edu/archive/news/041505pyle/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>