Berkshire Eagle
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The August 28, 1963 front page
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | John C. "Hans" Morris, Fredric Rutberg, Robert G Wilmers, Stanford Lipsey |
| Editor | Kevin Moran |
| Founded | Daily since May 9, 1892, with weekly roots beginning with the Western Star, founded in in 1789 |
| Headquarters | 75 South Church Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201, United States |
| Circulation | 23,835 daily 26,708 Sunday in 2012 |
| ISSN | 0895-8793 |
| Website | berkshireeagle.com |
The Berkshire Eagle is an American daily newspaper published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and covering all of Berkshire County, as well as four New York communities near Pittsfield. It is considered a newspaper of record for Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Published daily since 1892, The Eagle has been owned since May 2, 2016 by a group of local Berkshire County investors, who purchased The Eagle and its three Vermont sister newspapers for an undisclosed sum from Digital First Media.
The Eagle's roots go back to a weekly newspaper, the Western Star, later known as the Berkshire Star, founded in in 1789. After a number of changes in ownership, name, and location of publication, this paper became the Massachusetts Eagle in 1852. Eventually it became the Berkshire County Eagle, a weekly newspaper, and was purchased by Kelton Bedell Miller in 1891. The following year, on May 9, 1892, it commenced daily publication.
In 1973, Roger B. Linscott working at The Eagle won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
The Miller family retained ownership until 1995. The last publisher in the Miller family was Michael G. Miller, grandson of Kelton Bedell Miller, who founded the paper. Michael was then president of The Eagle Publishing Company which owned The Eagle, the Middletown Press in Middletown, Connecticut, and two daily newspapers in Vermont: the Bennington Banner and the Brattleboro Reformer, as well as a weekly newspaper, the Journal in Manchester, Vermont; his brother Mark C. Miller was editor of The Eagle, while brother Kelton B. Miller II was publisher of the Vermont newspapers. A sister, Margo Miller, a writer for The Boston Globe, sat on Eagle Publishing's board.
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