"Final Edition of Tucson Citizen Hits the Streets". ^ "Gannett to cease print publication of the Tucson Citizen" (Press release).^ "Tucson Citizen to cease publication March 21 if no buyer found".^ The Tucson Citizen on the Arizona Memory Project.^ a b c d e " 'Tucson Citizen' to cease print publication".Several former Citizen staffers founded, a nonprofit online news site, after the newspaper was closed. The bloggers and citizen journalists here provide news, information, opinion, commentary and perspective on the issues, interests and events that affect daily life in the Old Pueblo." It was a division of Gannett Company, Inc., and a partner of Tucson Newspapers. Evans, described itself as "a compendium of blogs. The successor site,, edited by the paper's former assistant city editor, Mark B. Justice Department and court action by Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. Gannett's attempted sale and closure of the Citizen was the subject of an investigation by the U.S. The last print edition was delivered on May 16, 2009. However, those negotiations did not bear fruit, and on May 15, 2009, Gannett announced that the final print edition would appear the following day, and that the Citizen would thereafter be an Internet publication. In January 2009, the Gannett Company, owner of the paper since the mid-1970s, announced it would close the Citizen by March 21 if a buyer were not found, though on March 17, 2009, Gannett announced the paper would remain open past that closing date because it was in negotiations with two potential buyers. Senior Editor Jennifer Boice and Editorial Editor Mark Kimble co-filled the position in the interim, until the end of publication. Įditor and Publisher Michael Chihak retired from the Citizen and Gannett on July 3, 2008. In 1976, the Citizen was sold to Gannett Company, Inc. Johnson sold his share to Small in 1964, and Small turned control over to his son, William A. Johnson invested in the newspaper in the late 1930s after the death of owner Frank Harris Hitchcock. He was very involved in the statehood of Arizona and is in the Arizona Newspaper Hall of Fame. Allan Brown Jaynes was owner, manager and editor of the Tucson Citizen between 19. During the mid-1880s, the newspaper was known as the Tucson Weekly Citizen. However, when the editor of the Arizonan refused to support McCormick's re-election as congressional delegate for the territory of Arizona, McCormick took the press and started the Arizona Citizen with Wasson. McCormick had originally been the owner of the Arizonan. The Tucson Citizen was the oldest continuously published newspaper in Arizona at the time it ceased publication. The Citizen published as Tucson's afternoon paper, six days per week (except Sunday, when only the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson's morning paper during the week) was published as part of the two papers' joint operating agreement). When it ceased printing on May 16, 2009, the daily circulation was approximately 17,000, down from a high of 60,000 in the 1960s. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870, as the Arizona Citizen. The Tucson Citizen was a daily newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. Jennifer Boice (final print-edition editor)
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