When censors told reporters to sit on biggest story of WWII

+ tentative debt ceiling deal reached US Edition - Today's top story: Sitting on a scoop: the story behind the V-E headlines of May 1945 [View in browser]( US Edition | 29 May 2023 [The Conversation] [The Conversation]( Top headlines - [Tina Turner’s Buddhism kept her going]( - [The chaos past debt ceiling crises have caused]( - [Using race in clinical algorithms]( Lead story In May 1945, Allied commanders gathered journalists from around the world in Reims, France, to witness the surrender of Nazi Germany. In exchange for granting them access, the top brass had one request: The reporters could not publish the news until given the green light. That meant they had to sit on the scoop for more than 24 hours – an almost unheard-of amount of time in a fast-paced, competitive news cycle. Would they hold the line? Read Boston University journalism professor Chris Daly’s story, which we picked from the archive on this Memorial Day, about [the press’s coverage of V-E Day]( to find out. 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