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Established in 1871, the locally owned Columbus Dispatch is Ohio’s most comprehensive source for local, national and international news. Its main offices are at 34 S. 3rd St., Columbus, Ohio 43215.
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Dispatch.com is central Ohio’s premier news and information Web site.
Updated throughout the day by the reporting staff of The Columbus Dispatch and the Associated Press, Dispatch.com is central Ohio’s most complete source of news about the area, Ohio State University, state government, Ohio politics and the nation.
Dispatch.com is a free site. You do not have to pay to use it.
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Dispatch Extra builds upon Dispatch.com to provide premium services, including access to the Dispatch archive for the last 30 days, BuckeyXtra - our Buckeye sports site - and Reader Rewards - special offers just for subscribers. The Electronic Edition is also part of Dispatch Extra.
Dispatch Extra is open only to subscribers.
If you subscribe to the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch you are entitled to free access to Dispatch Extra.
If you subscribed to Dispatch.com when it was a paid site, you are entitled to continue to subscribe at the old rate of $4.95 a month or $49.50 a year.
The rate for new subscribers is $79.50 a year or $7.95 a month.
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BuckeyeXtra includes year-round OSU sports content that goes beyond the news and features that appear in the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch. It hits every field, court and season with interviews, columns, interactive features and photos that you won’t find anywhere else. BuckeyeXtra is produced by Dispatch.com, WBNS-10TV and 1460 Sportsradio TheFan
If you subscribe to the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch or to Dispatch Extra online, you are entitled to free access to BuckeyeXtra. It is also available as a standalone product for $19.95 a year.
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Search is a free service of Dispatch.com devoted to Ohio news and information.
The Dispatch.com search engine provides easy online access to the The Columbus Dispatch and more than 400 other Ohio news sources. Subject tabs act as gateways to a central Ohio business directory, OSU sports, heath, movies and more.
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The Dispatch’s electronic archive contains the text of most staff-written articles that have appeared in The Columbus Dispatch since 1985.
Subscribers to the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch and the online Dispatch Extra have free access to articles published within the past 30 days.
Non-subscribers may retrieve articles from the archive for a fee.
Many Dispatch photos and historic pages are available for purchase. Please visit the Photo Gallery or the Page Store.
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The Electronic Edition mirrors the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch, page by page and ad by ad (except free-standing advertising inserts, such as the department store circulars in the Sunday paper).
Subscribers to the printed version of The Columbus Dispatch and the online Dispatch Extra have free access to the electronic edition.
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Here you’ll find information about how to register to use Dispatch.com features, pay for subscriptions and change your account information, such as your e-mail address and password or email preferences.
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