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
- ^ a b "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
- ^ "The Little Man's Big Friends: In Alabama, support for Donald Trump followed an ancient pattern". The Economist. February 11, 2017.
- ^ "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
- ^ "The (fake) Daily Mountain Eagle is dead". Alabama.com. March 8, 2016.
- ^ https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/04/i_confess_i_was_the_fake_daily.html
- ^ "Walker County native named publisher of Daily Mountain Eagle". Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. April 15, 2016.
External links
- Daily Mountain Eagle Home page
- People and things from the Walker County, Alabama mountain eagle, a series of books republishing clippings from archived copies of the newspaper