The Reading Eagle is the major daily newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the United States. This family-owned newspaper has a daily circulation of 49,375 and a Sunday circulation of 70,832. It serves the Reading and Berks County region of Pennsylvania.
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History
The paper was founded on January 28, 1868. It was initially an afternoon paper, published Monday through Saturday with a Sunday morning edition beginning publication some time later.
In 1940, the Eagle acquired the Reading Times, which was a morning paper, but they remained separate papers. The staff of the two papers was combined in 1982. In June 2002, the Reading Times ceased publishing, and the Eagle became a morning paper.
Author John Updike worked at the Eagle as a copyboy in his youth for several summer internships in the early 1950s, and wrote several feature articles.
In 2009, the newspaper switched to a Berliner format and laid off 52 employees in late April of that year.
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Sunday edition
For many years, the Sunday Reading Eagle featured a banner on its Sunday comics section saying "Biggest Comics Section in the Land",. It carried half pages of Prince Valiant, Hägar the Horrible, and Tarzan, as well as smaller versions of Dick Tracy, The Phantom, and a large number of popular humor strips. On July 8, 2018, however, if followed the path of most dwindling American newspapers, and reduced the size of its comics section and of the strips it carries.
References
External links
- Reading Eagle
- Google News archives 1868-2008
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