The Berkshire Eagle
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The Berkshire Eagle | |
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Type | Daily newspaper |
Format | Broadsheet |
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Owner | MediaNews Group |
Editor | Tim Farkas |
Founded | ca. 1892 |
Headquarters | 75 South Church Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 USA |
Circulation | 31,207 daily, 35,445 Sunday in 2003[1] |
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Website: www.berkshireeagle.com |
The Berkshire Eagle is a daily newspaper published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and covering all of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, as well as four New York communities near Pittsfield. It is considered a newspaper of record for the Berkshire County "hill towns" of Western Massachusetts.
Founded in the early 1890s, The Eagle has been owned since 1995 by MediaNews Group, which publishes three other daily newspapers in Massachusetts and several others in western New England, including the other leading newspaper based in Berkshire County, the North Adams Transcript.[2]
[edit] History
In 1973, The Eagle won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
The Eagle's last independent publisher was Michael Miller, grandson of Kelton Bedell Miller, who founded the paper. The paper was said to be struggling financially in the early 1990s, burdened by the debt of a $23 million new headquarters building. Miller retired when MediaNews bought The Eagle in 1995; the purchase was followed by layoffs and salary reductions.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Audit Report: The Berkshire Eagle." Audit Bureau of Circulation, March 31, 2003. Accessed December 7, 2006.
- ^ Elfland, Mike. "Sentinel & Enterprise Sale Set." Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette, January 8, 1997.
- ^ "Berkshire Eagle Sale is Pending." Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette, August 8, 1995.