RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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The Pentagon has given separation notices to both the publisher and the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Pentagon has given separation notices to both the publisher and the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Pentagon fired three staffers from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, including longtime publisher Max Lederer, for alleged insubordination.
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The Pentagon fired the publisher, editor-in-chief and at least one reporter at Stars and Stripes, a historically independent military news outlet, on Friday as the department has looked to reshape its coverage in recent months. The Defense Department (DOD) dismissed Erik Slavin, the editor-in-chief, publisher Max Lederer and Middle East correspondent Lara Korte, Star and...
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The news comes about a month after the editor stressed the importance of the newspaper’s independence in an interview, and a few days after the publisher announced his plans to retire.
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The editor in chief of Stars And Stripes, the publication that covers the U.S. military and is partially funded by the U.S. government, said that he was was being fired following an interview he gave to CBS News Sunday Morning in which he talked of censorship being a “red line” for him. Erik Slavin told […]
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Max Lederer and Erik Slavin receive termination notices after publication reported on crew conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln The Pentagon has fired the publisher and the editor of Stars and Stripes, the US military news outlet that has clashed with the Trump administration and armed forces brass over its partly taxpayer-funded reporting. Publisher Max Lederer and editor Erik Slavin received termination notices, CBS News reported on Friday. The cause cited was insubordination, and they have been given five days to appeal against their dismissals. Continue reading...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 14 reports from 14 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Pentagon moves to fire publisher and editor of Stars and Stripes.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — US, Other, and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from CBS News (Aug 21, 2026, 18:24 UTC); the most recent came from CBS News — Top (Aug 21, 2026, 22:40 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 10 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “stars and stripes”.
8 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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