Daily Mountain Eagle

The Daily Mountain Eagle is a daily newspaper servicing the Jasper, Alabama area. The paper is owned by Walls Newspapers 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).

Daily Mountain Eagle
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Walls Newspapers[1]
PublisherJames Phillips
EditorJames Phillips
Founded1872 (as Mountain Eagle)[2]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters1301 Viking Drive,
Jasper, AL
United States
ISSN0893-0759
Websitehttp://mountaineagle.com/

History

The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly.[2] J.F. Anthony bought a press in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 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."[3] In 1960, the newspaper was renamed as the Daily Mountain Eagle and changed to daily publication.[4]

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.[5] He outed himself in a column soon after.[6]

James Phillips, a native of Walker County and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the Daily Mountain Eagle in April 2016.[7]

References
  1. "Alabama newspaper owner Carmage Lee Walls Sr. dies". Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  2. "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
  3. "The Little Man's Big Friends: In Alabama, support for Donald Trump followed an ancient pattern". The Economist. February 11, 2017.
  4. "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers". Library of Congress.
  5. "The (fake) Daily Mountain Eagle is dead". Alabama.com. March 8, 2016.
  6. https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/04/i_confess_i_was_the_fake_daily.html
  7. "Walker County native named publisher of Daily Mountain Eagle". Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. April 15, 2016.
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