Press Freedom and Government Media

The Pentagon is overhauling Stars and Stripes, saying the paper will be "custom‑tailored to our warfighters" with coverage focused on war‑fighting, weapons systems, fitness and survivability, cutting Associated Press reprints and other Washington‑centric pieces and moving to content written by active‑duty service members — roughly half produced directly by the Defense Department, officials say. The department has published a Federal Register notice to eliminate 1990s directives that govern the paper; publisher Max Lederer says it is unclear what that means for the outlet’s congressionally mandated editorial independence or whether DoD can make the change without congressional authorization.