Description: The Sedalia Democrat was founded in 1868 as a weekly newspaper and began its daily edition originally called the Daily Democrat Dec 19 1871 The Democrat is Pettis Countys primary source for daily local news coverage We reach more than 15000 readers in Pettis County and five neighboring counties every Tuesday through Saturday with our print newspaper Some 64000 unique viewers come to our website every month for the latestbreaking news stories The Democrat newsroom took home 24 awards six of which were first places in the Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest for work published in 2020 We also print the Plainsman which is distributed every Wednesday with more than 23000 copies distributed by home delivery and racks in Pettis Benton Morgan and Henry counties The Democrat also owns the Warrensburg StarJournal in Warrensburg Missouri It is a twiceweekly newspaper that reaches roughly 2000 print subscribers each Tuesday and Friday along with daily updates online