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The Daily Reporter (Coldwater)

newspaper published in Coldwater, Michigan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7728700 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Daily Reporter is a daily newspaper published in Coldwater, Michigan, in the United States. It is owned by USA Today Co. Former owner GateHouse Media acquired the paper from Independent Media Group in 2000.

In addition to Coldwater, the paper covers several other cities and villages in Branch County, Michigan, including Bronson, Quincy and Union City.

The newspaper was founded in December 1895.

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“The Daily Reporter (Coldwater)” enters the record as newspaper published in Coldwater, Michigan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daily, Reporter and Coldwater can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1895—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Daily, Reporter and Coldwater.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7728700. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1895.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Daily Reporter (Coldwater)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.