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74-519: During the fall, spring and summer semesters, the IDS is published Thursdays and has a circulation of 9,000. During the 2021/2022 academic year, Indiana Daily Student produced 2,579 articles, making it the seventh most prolific in the U.S. in terms of articles published. At its founding Feb. 22, 1867, the paper was originally known as the Indiana Student and was published twice a month by half

148-451: A Japanese machine gun. The men immediately took cover in a nearby ditch. "A little later Pyle and I raised up to look around," Coolidge reported. "Another burst hit the road over our heads ... I looked at Ernie and saw he had been hit." A machine-gun bullet had entered Pyle's left temple just under his helmet, killing him instantly. Pyle was buried wearing his helmet, among other battle casualties on Ie Shima, between an infantry private and

222-574: A civilian correspondent to be regularly published in the U.S. armed forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes . Pyle's "everyman" approach to his wartime reporting earned him the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1944. Pyle was well known and popular among the American military. According to Sergeant Mack Morris, whose essay appeared in the U.S. army's weekly newspaper, Yank : "The secret of Ernie's tremendous success and popularity, if there

296-717: A combat engineer. In tribute to their friend, the men of the 77th Infantry Division erected a monument that still stands at the site of his death. Its inscription reads: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945." Echoing the sentiment of the men serving in the Pacific theater, General Eisenhower said: "The GIs in Europe––and that means all of us––have lost one of our best and most understanding friends." Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt , who frequently quoted Pyle's war dispatches in her newspaper column, My Day , paid tribute to him in her column

370-505: A conversation between the IDS ' s sports staff and its readers. "Live Buzz" covered live entertainment in Bloomington with information on upcoming concerts and music venues, as well as interviews with local and visiting bands and musicians. The opinion desk's blog, "The Sample Gates", featured content from columnists and editors on current events. BlogNetNews recognizes the "Sample Gates" on its Indiana Political Blogwire. Launched in

444-462: A dozen students. It ceased publication in 1874 due to financial difficulties but William Lowe Bryan, who was a student and would later become IU's 10th president, relaunched it in 1882. In 1897, Florence Reid Myrick became the paper's first female editor-in-chief. In 1899, the newspaper was renamed the Daily Student . The university gained ownership of the Daily Student in 1910 and used it as

518-432: A human-interest reporter. As a war correspondent he generally wrote from the perspective of the common soldier, explaining how the war affected the men instead of recounting troop movements or the activities of generals. His descriptions of or reactions to an event in simple, informal stories are what set his writing apart and made him famous during the war. Fellow journalists praised Pyle's writing. Walter Morrow, editor of

592-609: A journalism lab. In 1911, the university formed the School of Journalism. That same year, the school required every journalism student to work on the paper. Students received course credit and a grade for their work. Serving as editor-in-chief required 15 credit hours, but in 1905, the position became a paid job. In 1914, the paper was renamed to its current publication title, the Indiana Daily Student . In September 1922, Ernie Pyle became editor-in-chief and later left IU

666-805: A lifelong friend of Pyle) Charles M. Egan, Willis "June" Thornton Jr., and Paul McCrea. 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 . After briefly working in New York City for the Evening World and the New York Post , Pyle returned to the Daily News in December 1927 to begin work on one of

740-588: A modest, 1,145-square-foot (106.4 m ) home built on the site. The residence served as the couple's home base in the United States for the remainder of their lives. Ernie and Jerry Pyle had a tempestuous relationship. He often complained of being ill, was a "heavy abuser of alcohol at times," and suffered from bouts of depression , later made worse from the stress of his work as a war correspondent during World War II. His wife suffered from alcoholism and periods of mental illness (depression or bipolar disorder ). She also made several suicide attempts. Although

814-522: A native of Minnesota , at a Halloween party in Washington, D.C., in 1923. They married in July 1925. In the early years of their marriage the couple traveled the country together. In Pyle's newspaper columns describing their trips, he often referred to her as "That Girl who rides with me". In June 1940, Pyle purchased property about 3 miles (4.8 km) from downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico , and had

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888-530: A number of social media channels. Their Twitter, @idsnews, shares breaking news and other online content. The Indiana Daily Student Facebook hosts a number of Facebook Groups to engage with readers. These include "Hoops: IU Basketball Fan Forum," created in 2018; "The Hub: your Little 500 Source," created in 2019, which shares content regarding the annual Little 500 bike race; and "Bloomington, IU Coronavirus Updates," created in Spring 2020 to share information regarding

962-490: A place in American journalistic letters which no other correspondent of this war has achieved. His smooth, friendly prose succeeded in bridging a gap between soldier and civilian where written words usually fail." Pyle is best remembered for his World War II newspaper reports of the firsthand experiences of ordinary Americans, especially the G.I.s serving in the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe in particular. His legacy also lies in

1036-448: A professional journalist and earned him millions of readers as a columnist for Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate. In March 1922, during his junior year at IU, Pyle and three of his fraternity brothers dropped out of school for a semester to follow the IU baseball team on a trip to Japan . Pyle and his fraternity brothers found work aboard the S.S. Keystone State . During its voyage across

1110-574: A revised charter, combining the IDS and Arbutus yearbook charter, which was established in 1981, and changed the publisher's title to Director of Student Media. In 2014, the IDS newsroom moved from Ernie Pyle Hall to the new Media School, housed in Franklin Hall on IU's campus. Pyle's desk still sits in the newsroom, near the entrance. In 2024, students, faculty and administrators formed a committee to rework finances after yearly fiscal losses led to

1184-489: A rolling basis. Creative, Marketing and Distribution typically hire new staffers at the end of every semester. Opinion columnists are also hired at the beginning or end of the semester. Writers are paid per story, photographers per photo assignment, designers per page they design. The Indiana Daily Student ' s website, idsnews.com, features all paper content in a digital format, as well as multimedia such as videos, photo galleries, and audio slideshows. The website serves as

1258-528: A semester before graduation to work at a paper in LaPorte, Indiana. On Dec. 7, 1941, the IDS ran an extra on the bombing of Pearl Harbor , and is one of two known college newspapers to publish that afternoon. The IDS moved to Ernie Pyle Hall in 1954. The building was renamed in honor of Pyle, who was shot and killed in World War II in 1945. His desk sat in the newsroom. The building was also home to

1332-521: A semester remaining and without graduating from IU. He took a job as a newspaper reporter for the Daily Herald in La Porte, Indiana , earning $ 25 a week. Pyle worked at the Daily Herald for three months before moving to Washington, D.C. , to join the staff of The Washington Daily News . Pyle met his future wife, Geraldine Elizabeth "Jerry" Siebolds (August 23, 1899 – November 23, 1945),

1406-406: A small island northwest of Okinawa that Allied forces had captured, but had not yet cleared of enemy soldiers. The following day, after local enemy opposition had supposedly been neutralized, Pyle was traveling by jeep with Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Coolidge, the commanding officer of the 305th and three additional officers toward Coolidge's new command post when the vehicle came under fire from

1480-456: A student-produced news program or segment of a longer news program, on VHS format video tape. For the purposes of this competition, student-produced means that the majority of the planning, writing, scripting, taping and editing of the program was done by students. This contest is unique to the high school level, as no similar award is offered by the ACP to college broadcast programs. The following

1554-575: A three-month leave of absence from work to care for his wife, Pyle made a second trip to Great Britain in June 1942, when he accepted an assignment to become a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers. Pyle's wartime columns usually described the war from the common man's perspective as he rotated among the various branches of the U.S. military and reported from the front lines. Pyle joined American troops in North Africa and Europe (1942–44), and

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1628-412: A total $ 900,000 deficit. Due to previous budget cuts, the university forced the paper to cut staff, which IDS leadership argued hurt the paper's ability to make money. However, the committee's discussions did not bear fruit. In May 2024, staff conducted a walkout to protest a lack of university support. The IDS employs more than 200 students; 6 professional staff members serve as advisers. The IDS

1702-851: A war correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers. Beginning in North Africa in late 1942, Pyle spent time with the U.S. military during the North African Campaign , the Italian campaign , and the Normandy landings . He returned to the United States in September 1944, spending several weeks recuperating from combat stress before reluctantly agreeing to travel to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater in January 1945. Pyle

1776-410: A way to release breaking news and allow readers to interact through online comments. The IDS previously hosted a number of blogs for user forums and additional content. "Hoosier Hype" covered all IU sports. The blog launched in the fall of 2009 and aggregated content from previous sports blogs, such as "Basketblog", to include all IU athletics. The site hosts live chats during IU sports games to create

1850-568: A week in Scripps-Howard newspapers. The articles became popular with readers, earning Pyle national recognition in the years preceding his even bigger fame as a war correspondent during World War II. Selected columns of Pyle's human interest stories were later compiled in Home Country (1947), published posthumously. Despite his growing popularity, Pyle lacked confidence and was perpetually dissatisfied with his writing; however, he

1924-417: A wide range of ages from older readers to high school and college students. In November 1942 Pyle's columns were distributed to 42 newspapers, but the number had increased to 122 newspapers by April 1943. When he returned to the United States for a break during the war, reporters and photographers made increasing demands for his time. In 1943 Pyle also gave interviews on radio programs to help sell war bonds. At

1998-404: Is any secret about it, is his ability to report a war on a personal plane." Artist George Biddle wrote of how a battalion commander told him that Pyle was a poor writer, but was very popular because "he writes about and writes to the great, anonymous American average. They ... are thirsty for recognition and publicity". Pyle's newspaper columns were popular in the United States with readers in

2072-456: Is the third largest employer of students on campus. The student editor-in-chief is selected by a publications board that includes professional journalists, student representatives, alumni, faculty and administrators. The editor changes every semester – fall, spring and summer. Once selected, the editor chooses managing editors and desk editors for the semester through an application process. Staff members are drawn from all majors, and many major in

2146-477: The Rocky Mountain News , claimed that Pyle's columns from his travels across the United States in the 1930s were "the most widely read thing in the paper". During World War II Pyle continued to write about his experiences from the perspective of what he called "the worm's-eye view". In addition to publication of his columns in newspapers in the United States, Pyle's writing was the only writing from

2220-860: The Lilly Library , Indiana University Bloomington ; the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum, Dana, Indiana; the Indiana State Museum; and the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The Indiana Historical Society acquired Ernie and Jerry Pyle's personal library from IU Bloomington's School of Journalism in 2005 and moved the collection to its headquarters in Indianapolis. "The Death of Captain Waskow ", Pyle's most famous column,

2294-603: The Pacific Ocean , the ship docked at ports such as Shanghai , Hong Kong , and Manila , as well as in Japan before returning trip to the United States. Pyle's interest in traveling and exploring the world continued in his later years as a reporter. After his trip across the Pacific, Pyle returned to IU Bloomington, where he was named editor-in-chief of the Indiana Summer Student , the summer edition of

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2368-485: The Pacific theater during World War II. On more than one occasion, Pyle was noted for having premonitions of his own death. Before landing he wrote letters to his friend Paige Cavanaugh, as well as playwright Robert E. Sherwood , predicting that he might not survive the war. On April 17, 1945, Pyle came ashore with the U.S. Army's 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division , on Ie Shima (now known as Iejima ),

2442-667: The U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I . Pyle began his training at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , but the war ended before he could be transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for additional training. Pyle enrolled at Indiana University in 1919, aspiring to become a journalist. However, IU did not offer a degree in journalism at that time, so Pyle majored in economics and took as many journalism courses as he could. Pyle began studying journalism in his sophomore year,

2516-647: The ACP/CMA National College Media Convention (for colleges) in the following categories: Newspaper, Online, Yearbook/Magazine, and Broadcast. ACP, NSPA and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation have co-sponsored the Pacemaker competition since 1961. NSPA began the awards in 1927. The Pacemaker competition was discontinued in 1948–49, then resumed in 1961. The awards, which are considered by many to be

2590-621: The Asiatic-Pacific Theater (1945). Collections of Pyle's newspaper columns from the campaigns he covered in the European theater are included in Here is Your War (1943) and Brave Men (1944). In his reports of the North African Campaign in late 1942 and early 1943, Pyle told stories of his early wartime experiences, which made interesting reading for Americans in the United States. Through his work, Pyle became friends of

2664-554: The Ernie Pyle bill, whose content he proposed in one of his columns in early 1944. Congress passed formal legislation in May 1944 to provide American soldiers with a 50 percent increase in pay for their combat service. The U.S. Army also adopted Pyle's suggestion of providing overseas service bars on uniforms to designate six months of overseas service. Pyle's papers and other archival materials related to his life and work are held at

2738-711: The Hearst writing competition every year from 2013-2019. The IDS also consistently places in the Indiana Collegiate Press Association awards, winning 70 awards in advertising, online and print content in 2020. The IDS marketing and creative team consistently wins awards from the College Media Business and Advertising annual contest for their advertising campaigns. The IDS is an affiliate of UWIRE . Ernie Pyle Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945)

2812-505: The IU Media School. Management includes the editor-in-chief, two traditional managing editors, creative director and digital managing editor. Management chooses desk editors for the paper's news, sports, arts, opinion, photo, general assignments, design, copy, video, enterprise, digital, social media, and audience engagement sections. New writers, photographers, page designers, copy editors and web content producers are accepted on

2886-539: The NSPA/ACP Best of the Net competition, which began in 1996. Member publication Web sites are not automatically entered in the Pacemaker competition; staffs must submit a Pacemaker entry form. Online Pacemaker entries are judged during the months of February and March, based upon the following criteria: design, navigation, writing/editing, graphics and interactivity. Yearbook/Magazine Pacemakers are judged based upon

2960-535: The Pacific, Pyle challenged the Navy's policy forbidding the use of the names of sailors in reporting the war. He won a partial but unsatisfying victory when the ban was lifted exclusively for him. Pyle travelled on board the aircraft carrier USS  Cabot . He thought the naval crew had an easier life than the infantry in Europe, and wrote several unflattering portraits of the Navy. In response, fellow correspondents, newspaper editorialists and G.I.s criticized Pyle (who

3034-636: The Sam Elder farm near Dana, Indiana , in rural Vermillion County, Indiana . His parents were Maria (Taylor) and William Clyde Pyle. At the time of Pyle's birth his father was a tenant farmer on the Elder property. Neither of Pyle's parents attended school beyond the eighth grade. Pyle, an only child, disliked farming and pursued a more adventurous life. After graduating from a local high school in Bono , Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, he enlisted in

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3108-471: The School of Journalism, until the completion of The Media School in 2014. On July 1, 1969, the paper adopted its charter and became financially and editorially independent from the University. Journalism students were no longer required to work for the paper. Students paid for an IDS subscription until 1973, when it became free. Due to declining revenue, the IDS began charging a quarter per issue in

3182-432: The Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate. Over the next six years, from 1935 until early 1942, Pyle and his wife, Jerry, whom Pyle identified in his columns as "That Girl who rides with me," traveled the United States, Canada , and Mexico , as well as Central and South America , writing about the interesting places he saw and people he met. Pyle's column, published under the title of the "Hoosier Vagabond," appeared six days

3256-465: The campus newspaper. During his senior year at IU, Pyle continued his work at the Daily Student and the Arbutus . He also joined Sigma Delta Chi , the journalism fraternity, and was active in other campus clubs. In addition, Pyle was selected as a senior manager of IU's football team, making him a letterman along with the other members of the team in 1922. Pyle left school in January 1923 with only

3330-624: The coronavirus pandemic. The IDS Instagram, @idsnews, shares photos, stories and reader engagement content. Over the years, the IDS has garnered numerous national, regional and state honors. It is a consistent winner of the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Award. In its history, the IDS has won 41 Gold Crowns. IDS writers won

3404-415: 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 100,000 miles (160,000 km) as a passenger. As Amelia Earhart later said, "Any aviator who didn't know Pyle was a nobody." In 1932, at the age of thirty-one, Pyle

3478-597: The couple divorced on April 14, 1942, they remarried by proxy in March 1943, while Pyle was covering the war in North Africa. They had no children. Newspapers reported that Jerry Pyle "took the news [of her husband's death] bravely", but her health declined rapidly in the months following his death on April 18, 1945, while he was covering operations of American troops on Ie Shima . Jerry Pyle died from complications of influenza at Albuquerque , New Mexico, on November 23, 1945. In 1923, Pyle moved to Washington, D.C., to join

3552-554: The day after his death: "I shall never forget how much I enjoyed meeting him here in the White House last year," she wrote, "and how much I admired this frail and modest man who could endure hardships because he loved his job and our men." President Harry S. Truman , who had been in office for less than a week following the death of Franklin Roosevelt on April 12, also paid tribute to Pyle: "No man in this war has so well told

3626-471: The enlisted men and officers, as well as those in leadership roles such as Generals Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower . Pyle wrote that he was especially fond of the infantry "because they are the underdogs". Pyle lived among the U.S. servicemen and was free to interview anyone he wanted. As a noncombatant Pyle could also leave the front when he wanted. He interrupted his reporting in September 1943 and in September 1944 to return home to recuperate from

3700-531: The following criteria: writing/editing, design, content, concept, photography, art and graphics. In conjunction with the Yearbook Pacemaker competition, ACP/NSPA will recognize with an award of excellence the best interactive (CD/DVD) yearbooks in a separate contest. Interactive entries must include a copy of the printed book. The NSPA awards Broadcast Pacemaker awards for student-produced television news programs at high schools. An entry consists of

3774-440: The highest national honors for student journalism, are unique in their judging. Several issues from each newspaper's production schedule are randomly selected to be judged, ensuring that to be competitive for a Pacemaker, a publication must show consistent quality over an entire academic year. Judges select Pacemaker Finalists and Pacemakers based on the following: coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on

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3848-563: The highest national honors in their field, and are unofficially known as the " Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism". The National Scholastic Press Association administers the contest for high school programs, while the Associated Collegiate Press administers the college and university contests. Pacemakers are awarded annually at the JEA/NSPA National Conference (for high schools) and

3922-650: The horizon. There are dozens of times that many. In July 1944, Pyle was nearly caught in the accidental bombing by the U.S. Army Air Forces at the onset of Operation Cobra near Saint-Lô in Normandy. A month after witnessing the liberation of Paris in August 1944, Pyle publicly apologized to his readers in a column on September 5, 1944, stating that "my spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused" and he said that if he "heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut". He later said he had "lost track of

3996-409: The initial invasion in June 1944. He landed with American troops at Omaha Beach aboard a LST . On D-Day Pyle wrote: The best way I can describe this vast armada and the frantic urgency of the traffic is to suggest that you visualize New York city on its busiest day of the year and then just enlarge that scene until it takes in all the ocean the human eye can reach clear around the horizon and over

4070-557: The opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, art and graphics. Pacemakers are selected by the staff of a professional newspaper in the host city of the annual National College Media Convention, in the case of college papers, or the National High School Journalism Convention for high school publications. There are multiple awards in each category every year: in 2006, there were 26 high school winners. This contest replaces

4144-548: The people he had met. The series proved popular with both readers and colleagues. G.B. ("Deac") Parker, editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, said he had found in Pyle's vacation articles "a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out". In 1935, Pyle left his position as managing editor at the Daily News to write his own national column as a roving reporter of human-interest stories for

4218-484: The point of the war" and that another two weeks of coverage would have seen him hospitalized with " war neurosis ". An exhausted Pyle wrote that he hoped that a rest at his home in New Mexico would restore his vigor to go "warhorsing around the Pacific". Pyle reluctantly headed for the Pacific theater in January 1945 for what became his final writing assignment. While covering the U.S. Navy and Marine forces in

4292-478: The same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of " dogface " infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa . At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle

4366-516: The same year he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and began working on the Indiana Daily Student , the student-written newspaper. During his junior year Pyle became the newspaper's city editor and its news editor; he also worked on the Arbutus , the campus yearbook, although he did not enjoy the desk-bound work. Pyle's simple, storytelling writing style, which he developed while a student at IU, later became his trademark style as

4440-654: The spring of 1981. Up until 1995, it was only one of two college papers that still charged a fee. That fall, the IDS was once again free for students and the community. The IDS is funded exclusively through student-generated advertising and the IDS Legacy Fund. In the summer of 1996, the IDS launched its website, the Indiana Digital Student, now known as idsnews.com In October 2005, the IU-Bloomington Chancellor adopted

4514-408: The spring of 2012, "Collegiate Brand News" was a satirical blog that features fake news and photos reflecting current events and student life at IU. The IDS photo blog, "Focus", was home to work from IDS photographers. These blogs have since been discontinued. The IDS website hosts the podcast "Posted," a weekly recap from the IDS that shares the week's top news stories. The IDS remains active on

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4588-477: The staff as a reporter for the Washington Daily News , a new Scripps-Howard tabloid newspaper, and soon became a copy editor as well. 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

4662-530: The stories of soldiers who would otherwise be unknown. "The Death of Captain Waskow," published in January 1944, is considered Pyle's most famous column. In describing the soldiers he had met, Pyle remarked: Their life consisted wholly and solely of war, for they were and always had been front-line infantrymen. They survived because the fates were kind to them, certainly – but also because they had become hard and immensely wise in animal-like ways of self-preservation. In addition to his writing, Pyle's legacy includes

4736-579: The story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." After the war, Pyle's remains were moved to a U.S. military cemetery on Okinawa. In 1949, his remains were some of the first to be interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu , Oahu , Hawaii . Pyle's signature storytelling style was developed at IU and during his early years as

4810-556: The stresses of combat and care for his wife when she was ill. Reinforcing his status as the dogface G.I.'s best friend, Pyle wrote a column from Italy in 1944 proposing that soldiers in combat should get "fight pay," just as airmen received " flight pay ". In May 1944 the U.S. Congress passed a law that became known as the Ernie Pyle bill. It authorized 50 percent extra pay for combat service. Pyle's most famous column, "The Death of Captain Waskow ," written in Italy in December 1943,

4884-555: The time of Pyle's death his columns appeared in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers. Pyle is described as "the pre-eminent war correspondent of his era," who achieved worldwide fame and readership for his World War II battlefield reports that were published from 1942 to 1945. Present-day war correspondents, World War II veterans, and historians still recognize Pyle's World War II dispatches as "the standard to which every other war correspondent should strive to emulate." As Life magazine once described Pyle and his work: "He now occupies

4958-419: Was a former member of the U.S. Naval Reserve ) for his negative coverage of the Navy in his columns and for underestimating the difficulties of naval warfare in the Pacific. Pyle conceded that his heart was with the servicemen in Europe, but he persevered. After traveling to Guam and resuming his writing, Pyle went on to report on naval action during the Battle of Okinawa , the largest amphibious assault in

5032-409: Was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle was born on August 3, 1900, on

5106-441: Was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II . Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent

5180-698: Was covering the invasion of Okinawa when he was killed in April 1945. Pyle volunteered to go to London in December 1940 to cover the Battle of Britain. He witnessed the German firebombing of the city and reported on the growing conflict in Europe . His recollections of his experiences from this period were published in his book, Ernie Pyle in England (1941). After returning to the United States in March 1941 and taking

5254-443: Was named managing editor at the Daily News , serving in the position for three years before taking on a new writing assignment. In December 1934 Pyle took an extended vacation in the western United States to recuperate from a severe bout of influenza. Upon his return to Washington, D.C., and while he filled in for the paper's vacationing syndicated columnist Heywood Broun , Pyle wrote a series of eleven articles about his trip and

5328-464: Was pleased when others recognized the quality of his work. Pyle's aviation and travel reports laid the groundwork for his life as a war correspondent . Pyle continued his daily travel column until 1942, but by that time he was also writing about American soldiers serving in World War II . Pyle initially went to London in 1940 to cover the Battle of Britain , but returned to Europe in 1942 as

5402-593: Was published on January 10, 1944, when Allied forces were fighting at the Anzio beachhead in Italy. The notable story also marked the peak of Pyle's writing career. After the North African and Italian campaigns , Pyle left Italy in April 1944, relocating to England to cover preparations for the Allied landing at Normandy . Pyle was among the twenty-eight war correspondents chosen to accompany U.S. troops during

5476-571: Was written in December 1943 and published on January 10, 1944. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists later selected it as "the best American newspaper column of all time". The organization has bestowed the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award annually since 1993. National Pacemaker Awards The National Pacemaker Awards are awards for excellence in American student journalism, given annually since 1927. The awards are generally considered to be

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