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{{Short description|Unofficial written publication funded by the US DoD}}
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A '''command information newspaper''' is any unofficial written [[publication]] directly funded by the [[United States Department of Defense]].<ref name=":0" /> Editorial views expressed in command information newspapers may not necessarily be those of the United States government, or the Department of Defense.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 18, 2007 |title=ANACONDA TIMES |url=https://archive.org/details/at-2007-07-04/AT2007_07_18/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22command+information+newspaper%22 |access-date=2024-05-26 |publisher=[[United States Army]] |page=2 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

Since October 2008, the Defense Department has changed the way information is distributed to service members and their families, unifying the publication of command information newspapers with command information websites.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garmone |first=Jim |date=September 26, 2008 |title=New organization changes how to get info, entertainment |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/190444567 |access-date=2024-05-26 |work=U.S. Department of Defense Information / FIND |id={{ProQuest|190444567}} |via=[[ProQuest]] |agency=American Forces Press Services}}</ref>

== History ==
According to the ''Doctrine for Public Affairs in Joint Operations'' (1997), it is the responsibility of combatant commanders to conduct command information programs, including "resourcing" locally produced command information newspapers, to disseminate information to forces deployed in an operational area.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA357271/page/II-5/mode/2up?q=%22command+information+newspaper%22 |title=DTIC ADA357271: Doctrine for Public Affairs in Joint Operations. |date=May 14, 1997 |publisher=Defense Technical Information Center |pages=II-5}}</ref>

The [[101st Airborne Division]] of the [[United States Army]] has produced its own command information news publications during at least three wars.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Tilson |first=Bettina |date=September 11, 1990 |title=101st Media Personnel To Produce Information Newspaper For Troops |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leaf-chronicle-101st-media-personnel/148092702/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |work=The Leaf-Chronicle |location=Clarksville, Tennessee |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> During [[World War II]], it produced a news magazine called ''Screaming Eagle'', which first appeared in print on September 17, 1945.<ref name=":1" /> In 1968, during the [[Vietnam War]], it published a quarterly magazine called ''Rendezvous With Destiny''.<ref name=":1" /> In 1990, during [[Operation Desert Shield]], its Public Affairs Office published another command information newspaper called ''Screaming Eagle'', as well as video news segments.<ref name=":1" /> Production of the newspaper during Desert Shield was kept simple, with pages typed on laptops, printed out with photographs glued on, and photocopied.<ref name=":1" />

During the [[Vietnam War]], the [[Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]], (MACV) under General [[William C. Westmoreland]] published a command information newspaper called the ''Observer''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Payne |first=Les |date=December 4, 2005 |title=Truth is first casualty of war reporting |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-truth-is-first-casualty-of-war-r/148093024/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |work=[[Newsday]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> According to former military journalist [[Les Payne]], 80,000 copies of the ''Observer'' were dumped in the [[South China Sea]] due to a printing error.<ref name=":2" /> The error was blamed on the printer in Tokyo, who had somehow replaced "VN" for "Vietnamese" with "VC" for "[[Viet Cong]]", in a headline about a new agricultural bank.<ref name=":2" />

An example of a domestically produced command information newspaper in the United States is ''The Andrew Vindicator'', first published by the Joint Task Force (JTF) Andrew Public Affairs Office on September 16, 1992, in the response to [[Hurricane Andrew]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Trahan |first=Joseph V. |date=Summer 1993 |title=Media Relations in the Eye of the Storm |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=9311292531&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |journal=Public Relations Quarterly |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=31–32 |via=EBSCOHost}}</ref>

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