After celebrating its sesquicentennial of local ownership and editorial control in 2018, the Reading Eagle was acquired by the Denver-based MediaNews Group's Digital First Media in May 2019.

In 1940, The Eagle acquired the Reading Times, which was the city's morning paper, though they remained editorially separate newspapers.

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.

[14][15] After celebrating its sesquicentennial of local ownership and editorial control, the family-owned newspaper suffered financial hardships, and cut 16 percent of its newsroom staff on May 23, 2018.

It carried half pages of Prince Valiant, Hägar the Horrible, and Tarzan, and smaller versions of Dick Tracy, The Phantom, and other popular humor strips.