Bryan-College Station Eagle
The Bryan-College Station Eagle is a daily newspaper based in Bryan, Texas. Centered in Brazos County, the paper covers an eight-county area around Bryan-College Station that includes Texas A&M University.[1] First published in 1889 as The Weekly Eagle, it transitioned to a daily operation in 1913.[2]
The Eagle has won multiple awards, including honors from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors,[3] as well as the Newspaper Association of America circulation awards.[4] The average weekday circulation of The Eagle was as of 2013, 19,132.[5]
From 2001 to 2012, The Eagle was owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company, which sold it to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to become part of the BH Media Group subsidiary.[6][7] Previously, the newspaper was owned by the Belo Corporation from 1995 to 2001, by Worrell Newspapers from 1988 to 1995, Harte-Hanks Communications from 1962 to 1988, with local ownership prior to 1962.[8]
From 1971 to 1986, Jerry Wayne Waggoner, known as Wags Waggoner (1936-2015), was the executive sports editor and the managing editor of The Eagle.He then joined The Killeen Daily Herald. After a heart attack in 1990, he became a freelance writer until 2011 for other newspapers, including The Eagle. In his 50-year journalism career, Waggoner also worked for The Amarillo Globe News in Amarillo, The Gazette-Telegram in Colorado Springs, Colorado, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Lubbock, and the 12th Man Foundation in College Station. Waggoner had the sleep disorder, narcolepsy. Nevertheless, he once won second-place in a writing contest for coverage of a game of which he was asleep during half of the competition. A native of Stamford in Jones County, north of Abilene, Waggoner attended Tarleton State University in Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, and served in the United States Army. He spent his last years in Bryan, where he succumbed to another heart attack at the age of seventy-nine.[9]
References
- ↑ Aggie Journalists The Bryan-College Station Eagle seeks two reporters. Aggie Journalists (September 2008). Retrieved on May 30, 2020.
- ↑ Mark Odintz. The Handbook of Texas Bryan, Texas. Retrieved on May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Texas Associated Press Managing Editors presents 2008 awards," The Dallas Morning News, March 30, 2008.
- ↑ "2004 Circulation Sales Executive of the Year winner," sNewspaper Association of America date missing; accessed February 13, 2009.
- ↑ "Total Circulation for US Newspapers," Alliance for Audited Media, accessed June 9, 2013; no longer on-line.
- ↑ Belo sells The Eagle to Evening Post Group. Editorandpublisher.com. Retrieved on May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Warren Buffett buys Texas newspaper," Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald, June 12, 2012.
- ↑ "History of The Eagle," Bryan-College Station Eagle, March 5, 2012.
- ↑ Rebecca Fiedler (January 3, 2016). Former 'Eagle' managing editor Waggoner dies at 79. Bryan-College Station Eagle. Retrieved on May 31, 2020.
