Dayton Report is an independent, Dayton-based local news site. Everything we publish starts from a source you can check, and the source is named on the page. Here’s where our facts come from and how we check them.
Where the data comes from
- Property and taxes: county auditors’ records and the Ohio Department of Taxation’s published tax rates.
- People and jobs: the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Elections and government: county boards of elections, and the agendas, minutes and releases local governments publish.
- Home sales: the Dayton REALTORS® MLS, credited on each article as its rules require.
- Sports: OHSAA’s brackets and the schools’ own athletics schedules.
- Businesses and churches: their own websites. A listing’s hours, services and service times are what the business’s or church’s own site says. Business locations start from OpenStreetMap.
- Food help: the Dayton Foodbank’s own pantry list.
How we check it
- Every fact we take from a web page is checked against that page’s own words before it’s published. If the words aren’t on the page, the fact isn’t used.
- Facts are rechecked on a schedule: guides weekly, church and business websites about monthly, data pages whenever the source updates.
- Nothing is guessed. When something isn’t in the source, we leave it out rather than fill it in.
- When a recheck fails, because a page changed or a source no longer says it, the item is dropped until it can be confirmed again.
- Numbers in stories are compared with the source data automatically before publishing; a story that fails is held back.
How we’re paid for
Labeled ads and local sponsors. Advertising never affects our coverage, and every ad and sponsored post is clearly labeled. See our editorial policy.
Corrections
If something’s wrong, email info@daytonreport.com with a link and what it should say. An editor reviews every correction. See how corrections work.
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