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Dover Post

The Dover Post is a weekly newspaper based in Dover, Delaware and founded in 1975. It is part of the USA TODAY Network. GateHouse Media bought the Dover Post from the newspaper's founder and longtime publisher, Jim Flood, Sr., in 2008. In 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett, now the USA TODAY Co., which also owns the Wilmington News Journal and several other local publications. Flood established the Dover Post with a staff of 11. The paper struggled financially and faced competition from the Delaware State News. "To begin with we were tucked into two rooms in Treadway Towers," Flood wrote on the Post's 40th anniversary in 2015. "The cost of the two rooms became a little too much to handle and it wasn't long before the whole staff was crammed into one room." On the paper's one-year anniversary, Flood had free copies delivered across Dover. In time, the Post expanded, moving into a larger space that could accommodate a printing operation. In 2017, printing of the Dover Post was moved to the News Journal plant in New Castle. In 2021, Gannett announced the Dover Post website, along with other local publications owned by the company, would merge with Delaware Online, at delawareonline.com. The company said print editions for the merged papers would continue "unchanged."

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The Dover Post is a weekly newspaper based in Dover, Delaware and founded in 1975. It is part of the USA TODAY Network. GateHouse Media bought the Dover Post from the newspaper's founder and longtime publisher, Jim Flood, Sr., in 2008. In 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett, now the USA TODAY Co., which also owns the Wilmington News Journal and several other local publications. Flood established the Dover Post with a staff of 11. The paper struggled financially and faced competition from the Delaware State News. "To begin with we were tucked into two rooms in Treadway Towers," Flood wrote on the Post's 40th anniversary in 2015. "The cost of the two rooms became a little too much to handle and it wasn't long before the whole staff was crammed into one room." On the paper's one-year anniversary, Flood had free copies delivered across Dover. In time, the Post expanded, moving into a larger space that could accommodate a printing operation. In 2017, printing of the Dover Post was moved to the News Journal plant in New Castle. In 2021, Gannett announced the Dover Post website, along with other local publications owned by the company, would merge with Delaware Online, at delawareonline.com. The company said print editions for the merged papers would continue "unchanged."

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1975 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1975". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337404084

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