Welcome to the New Era, Dispatch
Just because they were the area paper of record in 1903 doesn't mean much in this day and age.
When I worked at Eleven Warriors, we loved competing against The Columbus Dispatch. They had more resources, more venerable reporters, but they were slow in everything they covered.
Their sports editor at the time made a smarmy comment about how their competitors were simply “guys with iPhones,” which begged the question why guys with iPhones were able t…