The Daily Citizen (Searcy)

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The Daily Citizen
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Paxton Media Group
FoundedSeptember 1854
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters723 W. Beebe-Capps Expressway
Searcy, AR 72143
United States
Websitewww.thedailycitizen.com

The Daily Citizen is a newspaper which is published every day except for Monday and Saturday in Searcy, Arkansas. It is owned by Paxton Media Group. The newspaper's circulation is 6,000.

The newspaper was founded in September 1854 as the Des Arc Citizen. During the Civil War, Union forces destroyed the Citizen’s printing facilities in 1862; publication didn't resume until 1866.[1] 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.[1]

The newspaper earned general excellence from the Arkansas Press Association from 2011 to 2013, and the Associated Press awarded the newspaper general excellence and sweepstakes in 2012 and 2013.

References

  1. ^ a b Adam Miller (October 1, 2020). "Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Daily Citizen (Searcy)". Central Arkansas Library System. Retrieved July 20, 2022.

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