The Daily Citizen is a newspaper which is published every day except Mondays and Saturdays in Searcy, Arkansas.
[citation needed] 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] 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.