The Daily Citizen is a newspaper which is published every day except Mondays and Saturdays in Searcy, Arkansas.^[1] It is owned by Paxton Media Group.^[1] The newspaper's circulation is 6,000.^{[citation needed]}

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The newspaper was founded in September 1854 as the Des Arc Citizen.^[1] In 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces destroyed the Citizen's printing facilities; 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.^[1] Ownership of the newspaper passed to Baugh's son-in-law, M.P. Jones Jr., in 1940.^[1] The paper remained in the Jones family until it was sold to Harte-Hanks Communications in 1977.^[1] 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^[1] from 2011 to 2013,^{[citation needed]} and the Associated Press awarded the newspaper general excellence and sweepstakes^[1] in 2012 and 2013.^{[citation needed]}