The ''Daily Mountain Eagle'' is a daily

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servicing the

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area. The paper is owned by

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and operated locally. It is one of only two corporation papers that provides information to the locals in the immediate area (alongside ''

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''). While the newspaper focuses on local news, it also reports on national and international matters.

History

The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly. J.F. Anthony bought a press in

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. in 1872 to start a newspaper in Jasper, former editor Michael D. Anderson, Sr. said. Anthony was told “Man, you’re going to need an eagle to deliver newspapers in those mountains.” According to another 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." In 1960, after a merger of The Walker County Times, The Jasper Advertiser, and The Mountain Eagle, the newspaper was renamed as the Daily Mountain Eagle and changed to daily publication. Prior to March 2016, the

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handle "Dailymtneagle" operated as an anonymous impostor site, but the operator shut it down, reportedly to avoid being outed. He outed himself in a column soon after. James Phillips, a native of

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and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the ''Daily Mountain Eagle'' in April 2016.{{cite news , title=Walker County native named publisher of Daily Mountain Eagle , date=April 15, 2016 , work=Southern Newspaper Publishers Association , url=http://snpa.org/stories/walker-county-native-named-publisher-of-daily-mountain-eagle,1612639 The last edition of The Daily Mountain Eagle to be printed in the local pressroom in

was published on Friday September 16. 2022. After that edition, the printing of future editions of The Daily Mountain Eagle will occur "off-site" at The Daily Corinthian facility in

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, which is also owned by the Paxton Media Group. This move led to a significant reduction of employees at the local facility of the newspaper in

References

External links

Daily Mountain Eagle Home page

People and things from the Walker County, Alabama mountain eagle
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