Daily Mountain Eagle

Daily Mountain Eagle
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Cleveland Newspapers
Publisher James Phillips
Editor James Phillips
Founded 1872 (as Mountain Eagle)[1]
Language English
Headquarters 1301 Viking Drive,
Jasper, AL
United States
ISSN 0893-0759
Website http://mountaineagle.com/

The Daily Mountain Eagle is a daily newspaper servicing the Jasper, Alabama area. The paper is owned by Cleveland Newspapers, incorporated and operated locally. It is one of only two corporation papers that provides information to the locals in the immediate area (alongside The Birmingham News).

History

The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly.[1] According to former editor Skip Tucker, the name derived from a joke the mule driver who delivered its first press—that "only an eagle could deliver the news."[2] In 1960, the newspaper was renamed as the Daily Mountain Eagle and changed to daily publication. [3]

Prior to March 2016, the Twitter handle "Dailymtneagle" operated as an anonymous impostor site, but the operator shut it down, reportedly to avoid being outed.[4] He outed himself in a column soon after.[5]

James Phillips, a native of Walker County and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the Daily Mountain Eagle in April 2016.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
  2. ↑ "The Little Man's Big Friends: In Alabama, support for Donald Trump followed an ancient pattern". The Economist. February 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
  4. ↑ "The (fake) Daily Mountain Eagle is dead". Alabama.com. March 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/04/i_confess_i_was_the_fake_daily.html
  6. ↑ "Walker County native named publisher of Daily Mountain Eagle". Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. April 15, 2016.
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