[1] The Citizen publishes two days a week, Wednesday and Sunday, serves as the legal organ for Rockdale County,[2] and is available online.

[3] The Rockdale Citizen was founded by W. Thomas Hay as a weekly newspaper, and was first published on July 30, 1953.

[4] In July 1996 a deal was made with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games for the Citizen to be distributed on the shuttles to and from the equestrian events at the Georgia International Horse Park.

In order to handle this, the Citizen had to switch to morning delivery and add a Saturday edition to provide results for Friday events and schedules for Saturday's events.

In 2005, Gray spun off its newspapers as Triple Crown Media.