The Wichita Eagle is the primary newspaper for the city of Wichita, Kansas and the surrounding area. The paper was founded and first edited by Marshall Murdock, and had its inception in the spring of 1872, along with its chief competitor, the Beacon. The two papers competed for close to one hundred years until the Eagle purchased the Beacon and became the Eagle and Beacon. Today, the Beacon name has been dropped. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The Eagle is currently owned by the Knight Ridder conglomerate. Partial list of newspapers The following is a partial list of newspapers owned by Knight Ridder: Contra Costa Times Detroit Free Press Kansas City Star The Miami Herald Philadelphia Inquirer Saint Paul Pioneer Press San Jose Mercury News The State External link Knight Ridder corporate website Categories: Companies traded on...
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Wichita: The Early Years, 1865-80 by H. Craig Miner
Read her blog from throughout the night to learn where the action was -- and wasn't.
The Wichita City Council on Tuesday took the next step to keeping baseball in Lawrence-Dumont Stadium next year.
The council agreed to purchase the National Baseball Congress while approving negotiations to bring a professional team from the independent American Association to replace the Wranglers.
Wichita, Kansas, is in the middle of the country, and Knight-Ridder'sWichitaEagle is exploring some fertile middle ground in this great newspaper debate.
Wichita, with a population of 300,000, is a hard-working community with a solid economy based on agriculture, petroleum, and aircraft manufacturing.
This was the opening gun for the Eagle's "Voter Project," innovations in political coverage subsidized in part by Knight-Ridder and grounded in the "community connectedness" thinking that had been going on both at the Eagle and at corporate headquarters in Miami.
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