The ''Sedalia Democrat'' is an American

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published in

Sedalia, Missouri Sedalia is a city located approximately south of the Missouri River and, as the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri, United States, it is the principal city of the Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had ...

. It was founded in 1868 as the ''Democratic Press'', a

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. It became the ''Sedalia Democrat'' soon after. It began its daily edition, originally called the ''Daily Democrat'', December 19, 1871 until 1873. It was also published as the ''Sedalia Weekly Democrat'' from 1872 and the ''Sedalia Evening Democrat'' from 1891 until 1906. In 1906 it merged with the ''Sedalia Evening Sentinel'', a newspaper published from 1896 until 1906 and as the ''Sedalia Sentinel'' in 1906. The ''Sentinel'' published the infamous poem "

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." It was succeeded by the ''Sedalia Democrat-Sentinel'' published from 1907 until 1911. In 1912 it returned to being called the ''Sedalia Democrat'' and has continued under that title to the present. In 1995, it became part of the

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chain; it was sold in May 2012 to Ohio Community Media. The ''Democrat'' was one of three daily newspapers that Ohio Community Media owned outside the state of

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. The other two were the ''

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'' and ''

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'' in

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. These three newspapers, along with ''

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'' in Ohio, constituted Freedom's Central Division. September 11, 2012, Versa Capital Management, LLC (Versa), a private equity investment firm, announced the creation of Civitas Media, LLC (Civitas), a new community news media company. Civitas, Latin for “community” or “citizen,” combined four media entities owned by Versa:

Central,

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, and

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. In 2017, Civitas Media sold the ''Sedalia Democrat'' to Phillips Media Group. It publishes a print edition five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday.

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