''The Daily Citizen'' is a newspaper which is published every day except Mondays and Saturdays in Searcy, Arkansas. It is owned by

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. The newspaper's circulation is 6,000.

History

The newspaper was founded in September 1854 as the '' Des Arc Citizen''. In 1862 during the

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, Union forces destroyed the ''Citizen'''s printing facilities; publication didn't resume until 1866. The paper was purchased in 1885 by James J. Baugh, who moved operations to Searcy and renamed it the ''White County Citizen''. Ownership of the newspaper passed to Baugh's son-in-law, M.P. Jones Jr., in 1940. The paper remained in the Jones family until it was sold to Harte-Hanks Communications in 1977. It was later sold to Worrell Enterprises, which sold it to Paxton Media Group in 1991. The newspaper earned general excellence from the Arkansas Press Association from 2011 to 2013, and the

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awarded the newspaper general excellence and sweepstakes in 2012 and 2013.

References

External links

The Daily Citizen Homepage
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