By Eagle Newswire
When Fred Jones first approached The Oklahoma Eagle Publisher Jim Goodwin about publishing a web page for The Oklahoma Eagle Newspaper he was a little bit reluctant at first, but since the website has gone up it has been visited by more than 870,000 different people in less than 16 months.
The largest number of hits have come from these three articles: “Two Young Black Men Murdered In Oklahoma by Four Whites And It’s Getting No Media Attention” at 53,710 hits; “Booker T. Selected As Best Public High School In Oklahoma” at 53,656 and Pastor “Michael and Natalie Todd: Transforming Transformation Church” with 47,474 hits.
Share’s of the websites post have been a key factor in the early success of the page female rap artist Cardi B shared the “Two Young Black Men Murdered In Oklahoma by Four Whites And It’s Getting No Media Attention and it hit an amazing 1 million plus views on her Instagram page. Male rap artist TI also shared the post and it had over 83,000 views on his Instagram page.
Fred Jones, The Oklahoma Eagle Web Page Editor stated, “We are looking forward to launching our OK Eagle App within the next 2 weeks which will make us more available to the mobile generation, as more people get their news and information on there iPads, tablets and mobile devices, we want to be available as one of their primary news and information sources.” Jones also stated, “The future of broadcasting will be almost completely digital with the millennials leading the way, we want to be a part of the entire digital platform as it applies to journalism as a whole.”
Logon to www.theoklahomaeagle.net or follow the Eagle on Facebook or Twitter at The Oklahoma Eagle. Jones stated in closing that: “We have several projects on tap from The Oklahoma Eagle digital production standpoint. We will also be launching The Oklahoma Eagle YouTube Broadcast soon. There is excitement in the air as we progress closer to an almost complete digital format, but not to worry there will always be The Oklahoma Eagle newspaper for our traditional audience.”
