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The Daily Mountain Eagle is a daily newspaper servicing the Jasper, Alabama area. The paper is owned by Paxton Media Group 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 ). While the newspaper focuses on local news, it also reports on national and international matters.

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Daily Mountain Eagle
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Paxton Media Group
PublisherJoyce Taylor
Managing editorNicole Smith
Founded1872 (as Mountain Eagle) [1]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters100 Highway 78 West,
Jasper, AL
United States
ISSN 0893-0759
Website mountaineagle.com

History

The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly. [1] J.F. Anthony bought a press in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 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." [2] 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. [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, Alabama and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the Daily Mountain Eagle in April 2016. [6]

The last edition of The Daily Mountain Eagle to be printed in the local pressroom in Jasper, Alabama 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 Corinth, Mississippi, 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 Jasper, Alabama.

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