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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 longtime chief rival, the ''Wichita Beacon,'' it became
==History==
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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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