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'''''The Wichita Eagle''''' is a daily [[newspaper]] published in [[Wichita, Kansas]], United States. ItOriginating 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 1870, ''The VedetteVidette'' was the first newspaper established in Wichita by Fred A. Sowers<ref>{{Find a Grave|23817525|Frederick Augustus Sowers}}</ref> and W. B. Hutchinson.<ref>[http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/pdf/People&Places/wichita_vidette.pdf Wichita State University Libraries]</ref> It operated briefly.<ref name="Book-1914-WIH">[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00daug ''Wichita : Illustrated History 1868 to 1880''; Eunice S. Chapter; 52 pages; 1914.]</ref><ref name="Paper-2016-EagleHistory">[http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article80656417.html History of The Wichita Eagle; The Wichita Eagle; May 29, 2016.]</ref>

InOn April 12, 1872, ''The Wichita Eagle'' was founded and edited by Marshall M. Murdock,<ref>{{Find[https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article140839068.html a''The Grave|7625878|ColWichita Marshall Marcellus "Marsh" Murdock}}Eagle'']</ref><ref>[http://kspress.com/156/murdock-marshall-m Marshall M. Murdock; Kansas Press Association.]</ref> and it became a daily paper in May 1884.<ref name="Book-1914-WIH"/> His son, [[Victor Murdock]],<ref>{{Find a Grave|6635553|Victor Murdock}}</ref> was a reporter for the paper during his teens, the managing editor from 1894 to 1903, an editor from the mid-1920s until his death in 1945.<ref>[https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/victor-murdock/16962 Kansas Historical Society]</ref>

In October 1872, ''The Wichita Daily Beacon'' was founded by Fred A. Sowers and David Millison.<ref name="Book-1914-WIH"/><ref name="Paper-2016-EagleHistory"/> It published daily for two months, then weekly until 1884 when it went back to daily. In 1907, [[Henry Justin Allen|Henry Allen]]<ref>{{Find a Grave|6635532|Henry Justin Allen}}</ref> purchased the ''Beacon'' and was publisher for many years.<ref>[http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/pdf/People&Places/Allen_Henrietta.PDF Wichita State University Libraries]</ref><ref>[http://kspress.com/76/allen-henry-j Henry J. Allen; Kansas Press Association.]</ref><!-- NOTE from User:Sbmeirow - The 1914 books said Floyd and Sowers started Beacon, the 2016 Eagle article said F.A. Sowers and David Millison started the Beacon. I left out the 2nd name because of conflict. We need more sources to determine the 2nd person. -->

On November 18, 1996, the ''Eagle'' launched its first website, ''Wichita Online'', at wichitaeagle.com. On January 22, 2000, itsit domainshifted wasits changedprimary content to the domain kansas.com.<ref name="Paper-2016-EagleHistory"/>

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 oldOld townTown.<ref>[http://www.kansas.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/carrie-rengers/article105193381.html Cargill selects site for new Wichita headquarters for its Protein Group; The Wichita Eagle; September 30, 2016.]</ref><ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2016/12/01/cargill-unveils-plans-for-60-million-headquarters.html Cargill unveils plans for $60 million Protein Group headquarters; Wichita Business Journal; December 1, 2016.]</ref>

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. (see [[Objectivity (journalism)|Objectivity in Journalism]]) Instead, the civic journalism movement seeks to treat readers and community members as participants. With a small, but growing following, civic journalism has become as much of an ideology as it is a practice.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}

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