
The paper built its national reputation largely under the editorship of W. The new site is located southeast of the Warren Old Town Theater. It plans to move newsroom and advertising employees to 330 North Mead (from 825 East Douglas) in the spring of 2017. In January 2017, the paper announced it had signed a deal for office space in the Old Town area of downtown Wichita. In fall 2016, Cargill announced that it would move its "Protein Group" headquarters from downtown Wichita into a new $60 Million building on the site of the former Eagle building at 825 East Douglas Avenue in old town. The building will be sold and the editing staff will move to a smaller location in downtown Wichita. The move eliminated 27 full-time and 47 part-time jobs. In spring 2016, McClatchy Company announced that it would transfer printing of the Eagle from Wichita to its Kansas City Star printing line in Kansas City, Missouri, which already prints other newspapers such as Lawrence Journal-World and Topeka Capital-Journal. On January 22, 2000, its domain was changed to. On November 18, 1996, the Eagle launched its first website, Wichita Online, at. In 2006, the Eagle became part of The McClatchy Company when McClatchy bought Knight Ridder. In 1989, the Beacon name was dropped, and the newspaper became The Wichita Eagle. Ridder and Knight Newspapers merged in 1974 to form Knight Ridder, which combined the two newspapers into The Wichita Eagle-Beacon in 1980. In 1973, the Murdock family sold the paper to Ridder Publications. Both newspapers continued to be published, the Eagle in the morning, the Beacon in the evening, the Eagle and Beacon on Sunday. The Eagle and Beacon competed for 88 years, then in 1960 the Eagle purchased the Beacon. In 1907, Henry Allen purchased the Beacon and was publisher for many years. It published daily for two months, then weekly until 1884 when it went back to daily.

In October 1872, The Wichita Daily Beacon was founded by Fred A. His son, Victor Murdock, was a reporter for the paper during his teens, the managing editor from 1894 to 1903, an editor from the mid-1920s until his death in 1945. Murdock, and it became a daily paper in May 1884. On April 12, 1872, The Wichita Eagle was founded and edited by Marshall M. Visit The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.) at Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.In 1870, The Vidette was the first newspaper established in Wichita by Fred A. (c)2022 The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.) This story was originally published June 6, 2022 5:33 PM. He was not immediately available for comment Monday afternoon. “I am looking forward to working will all of our systems partners, including EMS and Fire.”Īs medical director for the Emergency Medical Services System, Brinker will provide clinical direction for all pre-hospital medical providers in the county, including EMTs and paramedics with the Wichita Fire Department and Sedgwick County Fire District 1. “I’m pleased to have been appointed Director of the Sedgwick County Emergency Medical Services System,” Brinker said in a news release from the county. Brinker practices at Newton Medical Center and Newman Regional Health in Emporia.

Like Gallagher, Brinker will divide his time between the county and local emergency rooms. After interviews with two finalists in December, Stolz opted to keep Lanterman in the interim role.īrinker, a former Sedgwick County paramedic who left the department in 1999 to attend medical school, brings with him the “street-level experience” that EMS workers complained Gallagher lacked. The county has not hired a permanent EMS director. Sedgwick County Manager Tom Stolz split EMS operations and the office of the medical director last summer after Gallagher resigned and named two interim directors - Kevin Lanterman over EMS and Brinker over the office of the medical director. Gallagher was hired in 2019 as director of the department amid a consolidation of EMS ambulance operations and the office of the medical director, which traditionally handled protocols, medical decisions, training and credentialing within the organization.

