Daily Mountain Eagle


The Daily Mountain Eagle is a daily newspaper servicing the Jasper, Alabama area. The paper is owned by Walls Newspapers and operated locally. It is one of only two corporation papers that provides information to the locals in the immediate area.

History

The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly. According to former editor Skip Tucker, the name derived from a joke the mule driver who delivered its first press—that "only an eagle could deliver the news." In 1960, the newspaper was renamed as the Daily Mountain Eagle and changed to daily publication.
Prior to March 2016, the Twitter handle "Dailymtneagle" operated as an anonymous impostor site, but the operator shut it down, reportedly to avoid being outed. He outed himself in a column soon after.
James Phillips, a native of Walker County and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the Daily Mountain Eagle in April 2016.