Wichita eagle
The Newspaper: The Wichita Eagle is a daily newspaper published in Wichita, Kansas. It offers detailed coverage of local, national and international news, politics, sports and business. It also features public opinion polls, analysis and commentary. The newspaper, owned presently by the McClatchy Company, is the largest circulated daily in Wichita and central western, and south Kansas. An online edition of the newspaper is also available and easily accessible to the dedicated readers and supporters of the daily.
The Wichita Eagle newspaper extensively covers local and state government activities, local hospitals and other health care centers in the area. Its local business clients include Cessna Aircraft, Beech Aircraft, Coleman Company, Koch Industries, Pizza Hut, Learjet, Mueller Industries and HCA Health Services.
The Wichita Eagle has various sections grouped under News, Art and Entertainment, Columns, Business, Editorials, Full Text News Stories, Features, Leisure, Sports Letters to the Editor and Wire Stories. Under the news section, the headings are Breaking news, Community, Corrections, Crime and Courts, Roads, Legislature, Education, Election, Local, Lottery, Nation, News to Use, Obituaries, Photos, Politics, State, Weird News and World News.
The ‘Wichi-Talk’, is one of Eagle’s features from Monday to Thursday. It is probably the most challenging and fun-filled feature of the newspaper. There is a special section on weather forecasts too.
The Wichita Eagle Beacon: Tracing the history of the newspaper uncovers that on April 12, 1872 Col. Marshall Murdock took over as the founder of the Wichita Eagle and the first edition of Wichita Beacon appeared on October 18, 1872. The two newspapers survived a rivalry of eighty-eight years. Finally in 1960, the Eagle bought the Beacon. The Ridder Publications purchased both the newspapers in 1973. They merged into the morning Wichita Eagle-Beacon newspaper in 1980. In the September of 1989, the Wichita Eagle-Beacon was named the Wichita Eagle newspaper.
Classifieds in the Wichita Eagle: There are a variety of classifieds in the Wichita Eagle newspaper. You can find the best jobs listed in the paper. Nationwide job listings are now featured. There are special classified sections for automotives, dealing with the buying and selling. The classifieds in the Wichita Eagle newspaper also contains information on real estate, sale of special services and goods, apartment rentals, lost and found persons and possessions, personal services, special announcements, obituaries, legal and financial agencies and auctions. The classified columns are designed to accommodate every essential entry that could be used productively by the dedicated readers.
Wichita Eagle Obituary: The Wichita Eagle newspaper has a special obituary section. The Wichita Eagle newspaper obituary is accessible online and is a great help for those who want to search a particular entry, on any given date of the newspaper. The online version of the Wichita Eagle obituary also accommodates special moving tributes to the dead. This enables friends and family to share fond memories. You can add music, text, your own voice and photos to create a tribute.
The Wichita Eagle was at the forefront of the Civic Journalism Movement in 1990 that treated its readers and community members as participants. The newspaper has served the community of Wichita well over the years.
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