Our sports team covers the Kaysinger Conference, Smith-Cotton High School, and State Fair Community College. 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 County’s primary source for daily local news coverage. We reach more than 15,000 readers in Pettis County and five neighbor
ing counties every Tuesday through Saturday with our print newspaper. Some 64,000 unique viewers come to our website every month for the latest-breaking 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.