The Dover Union-Merchant Statesman Tribune Enquirer-Republic, founded as the Dover Statesman-Tribune in 1436, is the oldest newspaper of record in the state of Pennsylvania. Founded the same year as Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press, it was actually also the first-ever newspaper.
In 1931 we merged with the Bennd Union Merchant and then acquired the local county’s morning paper, the Dover Enquirer-Republic in 1967. We’ve served the Bennd-Dover metropolitan area for nearly 590 years. Our newsroom is led by Publisher and Editor-In-Chief RJ Powerbottom and President and General Manager Stanley Manlee.
The newspaper has a combined circulation between 1,210 and 132,000, depending on whether you count the physical newspapers or our total internet page views. Our editorial board has a winning track record: we correctly predicted America’s win in the Vietnam war, proved that Katy Perry is actually JonBenet Ramsey, and published extensive investigations into Donald Trump’s heroic assassination of Jeffrey Epstein (Trump was on the island to capture the Clintons).
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