question: W. Davis "Buzz" Merritt Jr. was editor of a daily newspaper that was published in what state?
answer: Kansas
context: Title: Redwood City Daily News
  Passage: The Redwood City Daily News was a free daily newspaper in Redwood City, California published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000.  The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by Dave Price (journalist) and Jim Pavelich, who also published the "Palo Alto Daily News".  The "Redwood City Daily News" was adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation by the San Mateo County Superior Court in 2001, enabling it to publish legal notices.  Both the Palo Alto and Redwood City "Daily News" editions were distributed in large red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces.  The "Redwood City Daily News", along with five other "Daily News" editions, was sold to Knight Ridder on Feb. 15, 2005.  After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six "Daily News" editions, including the "Redwood City Daily News", were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.
  Title: Kalantar
  Passage: Kalantar (কালান্তর) is a daily Bengali-language newspaper issued from Kolkata, India.  It is the organ of the West Bengal State Council of the Communist Party of India.  It was published as a weekly newspaper since 1965; 'Kalantar' converted to a daily newspaper in the late 1960s.  And have a separate weekly as it is.  The header of the 'Kalantar' daily was designed by the legend film maker-artist Satyajit Ray himself.  Among the early editors, veteran communist leader Somnath Lahiri, Bhabani Sen, Jyoti Dasgupta, Prabhat Dasgupta, Prof. Gautam Chattopadhyay were there.  From the single-color edition it is now publishing as a four-color daily newspaper.  In the autumn, Kalantar publish a festive 'Sharadiyo' edition in the book form as like as other daily newspapers in Kolkata.
  Title: The Oregonian
  Passage: The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.  It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861.  It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation and the 19th largest daily newspaper in the country.  The Sunday edition is published under the title "The Sunday Oregonian".
  Title: Hoy (Peruvian newspaper)
  Passage: HOY Regional is a Peruvian newspaper, published in the city of Huánuco.  It first appeared in 1986, under the name "Via Gerencia".  It was founded by a professional journalist and entrepreneur, David Orosco Alania (who died in November 2010 at the age of 57).  Since 1996, it has been a daily newspaper, first under the name "Diario Regional".  Published from Monday to Saturday, it had a Sunday edition with a cultural magazine, but some weeks later the Sunday edition stopped appearing.  A daily newspaper was something absolutely new in the city; the first daily newspaper in a city that was founded on 1539.  Competing with national newspapers from Lima was hard.  Orosco seems to have applied an old Chinese saying: "Be like a rice plant, it bends to strong storms, but turns right after the storm passes."
  Title: Kosova Sot
  Passage: Kosova Sot (English: Kosovo Today) is a newspaper published in Kosovo.  Preparations for the publication of the newspaper began in 1997 and the first newspaper was published on 12 September 1998.  The founder of the daily newspaper is Mr. Ruzhdi Kadriu.  Editor-in-chief and director of the daily newspaper 'Kosova Sot' until 2014 was Margarita Kadriu.  'Kosova Sot' continues to be the leading newspaper in Kosovo and it has independent editorial policy.  Except the newspaper in hard copy it has as well online newspaper www.kosova-sot.info.
  Title: The Beaver County Times
  Passage: The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States and serving the north-western Pittsburgh suburbs.  The "Times" is a direct descendant of many of Beaver County's newspapers, starting with the "Minerva", first published in 1807, and generally believed to have been the county's first newspaper.  The "Beaver Times" was founded by Michael Weyland and was published from 1851 to 1895, when the name was changed to the "Beaver Argus".  It was changed again to "The Daily Times", which was published from 1909 to 1946 and operated by John L. Stewart and E. L. Freeland.  It was sold in 1946 to S. W. Calkins, who combined it with the "Aliquippa Gazette", which he acquired in 1943.  The paper was known as "The Beaver Valley Times" until 1956, when it became "The Beaver County Times" after its acquisition of the "Ambridge Daily Citizen".  In 1979, "The Times" purchased the only other daily newspaper in the county, "The News Tribune" of Beaver Falls.
  Title: W. Davis Merritt
  Passage: W. Davis "Buzz" Merritt Jr. was editor of "The Wichita Eagle" from 1975 through 1998.  He is considered one of the fathers of public journalism, a reform movement that urged journalists to do their jobs in ways that could help citizens engage in public life rather than discouraging them.  A major component of public journalism is to train journalists to view events from the citizen's perspective rather than that of the participants in the news.  Merritt is the author of three books on journalism, "Public Journalism and Public Life," "The Two W's of Journalism" (with Maxwell McCombs), and his latest, "", a critique of corporate ownership of newspapers that reserves its most pointed criticism for Knight Ridder, the company that owned "The Wichita Eagle" and his employer for 43 years.
  Title: James W. Merritt
  Passage: James W. Merritt Jr. is a Republican member of the Indiana Senate, representing the 31st District since 1997.  He was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 1990.  He was reelected to the state Senate in 2010, defeating then-Marion County Sheriff Frank J. Anderson by a margin of 52% to 44%.
  Title: The Wichita Eagle
  Passage: The Wichita Eagle is a daily newspaper published in Wichita, Kansas, United States.  It is owned by The McClatchy Company and is the largest newspaper in Wichita and the surrounding area.
  Title: Times of Malta
  Passage: The Times of Malta is an English-language daily newspaper in Malta.  Founded in 1935, by Lord and Lady Strickland and Lord Strickland's daughter Mabel, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in Malta.  It has the widest circulation and is seen as the daily newspaper of "reference" of the Maltese press.  The newspaper is published by Allied Newspapers Limited which is owned by the Strickland Foundation, a charitable trust established by Mabel Strickland in 1979 to control the majority of the company.  According to Alexa Internet the Times of Malta website is the most accessed website in Malta.
citations: W. Davis Merritt The Wichita Eagle