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'''''The Wichita Eagle''''' is a daily [[newspaper]] published in [[Wichita, Kansas]], United States. Originating in the early 1870s, shortly after the city's founding, it is owned by [[The McClatchy Company]] and is the largest newspaper in Wichita and the surrounding area.<ref>[http://www.kansas.com The Wichita Eagle website.]</ref>
In the 1970s, merged with its chief rival, the ''Wichita Beacon,'' it became the ''Wichita Eagle & Beacon,'' until the Beacon moniker was dropped in 1989. (An unrelated online newspaper, the ''Wichita Beacon,'' emerged from a similar-named Kansas City publication in the early 2020's)▼
▲In the 1970s, merged with its longtime chief rival, the ''Wichita Beacon,'' it became
==History==
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===Internet===
On November 18, 1996, the ''Eagle'' launched its first website, ''Wichita Online'', at wichitaeagle.com. On January 22, 2000,
===Move===
In spring 2016, McClatchy Company announced that it would transfer printing of the ''Eagle'' from Wichita to its ''[[Kansas City Star]]'' printing line in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], which already prints other newspapers such as ''[[Lawrence Journal-World]]'' and ''[[Topeka Capital-Journal]]''. The move eliminated 27 full-time and 47 part-time jobs. The building will be sold and the editing staff will move to a smaller location in downtown Wichita.<ref>[http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article66013147.html Eagle to transfer printing to Kansas City Star; The Wichita Eagle; March 14, 2016.]</ref><ref>[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/mar/15/wichita-eagle-transfer-printing-kansas-city-star/ Wichita Eagle to transfer printing to Kansas City Star; Lawrence Journal-World; March 15, 2016.]</ref> In fall 2016, Cargill announced that it would move its "Protein Group" headquarters from downtown Wichita into a new $60 Million building on the site of the former ''Eagle'' building at 825 East Douglas Avenue in
In January 2017, the paper announced it had signed a deal for office space in the Old Town area of downtown Wichita. It plans to move newsroom and advertising employees to 330 North Mead (from 825 East Douglas) in the spring of 2017.<ref>[http://www.kansas.com/news/business/article124312049.html Wichita Eagle signs deal for new downtown headquarters; The Wichita Eagle; January 3, 2017.]</ref> The new site is located southeast of the Warren Old Town Theater.
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==Civic journalism==
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The paper built its national reputation largely under the editorship of [[W. Davis Merritt|W. Davis "Buzz" Merritt Jr.]], one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of [[civic journalism]] (also known as public journalism) which believes that journalists and their audiences are not merely spectators in political and social processes, and that journalists should not simply report dry facts as a pretense that their reporting represents unadulterated neutrality, which is impossible.
''The Wichita Eagle'' was at the forefront of this movement. For example, for elections held in 1990, the paper polled 500 residents to identify their top concerns for the state. Then, over the course of the elections, reporters for the paper attempted to pin down the candidates on how they felt about these issues, and printed a pull-out section each week with a list of the issues and where the candidates stated they stood. If the candidate refused to take a stand, that was also reported. This is in stark contrast to the former practice of simply reporting the facts about a candidate's speech. As a result, voter turnout in the ''Eagle''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s primary circulation area was 43.3 percent, compared with 31 percent for the rest of the state.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}
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