Spotlight on Business

For the past six years, The Citizen Newspapers have brought local news and thoughtful commentary each week to Fayette County.

With a staff of more than 25 professionals, The Citizen is the only locally owned newspaper distributed in Fayette County. The majority stockholders live and work in Fayette County.

Distribution of more than 27,000 copies each Wednesday makes The Citizen the largest circulation newspaper in the county. The paper's “relentlessly local” focus attracts a growing number of regular readers each month. The paper is available by home carrier delivery, coin boxes, news racks and counter sales at more than 100 locations in Fayette and neighboring counties.

A new publication was introduced to western Fayette and eastern Coweta counties in 1995. The Peachtree Citizen Review and The Coweta Citizen Review reach citizens from Peachtree City to downtown Newnan each Friday with the latest and most interesting news of their areas as well as a formidable array of opinion columns addressing contemporary issues.

Recognizing the tremendous growth that both Fayette and Coweta counties have experienced in the early to mid 1990s, Fayette Publishing Inc. (the corporate name of The Citizen Newspapers) introduced special tabloid information-rich publications to aid both longtime residents and newcomers to the area. The Citizen FactFinders are now published twice a year in each county, providing in one handy bound booklet essential information and facts about local governments, utilities, merchandise and services within the area. Area chambers of commerce use this publication as a source document for welcome packets distributed to newcomers.

Due in part to the rapid population growth, coupled with the need for information regarding places of worship, The Citizen also introduced the first Church FactFinder in the fall of 1996, with an update published each November, just in time for the holiday season.

Winner of a first place Georgia Press Association award for specialty publications, the Church FactFinder is distributed to area homes and copies are provided to chambers of commerce and places of worship, creating a circulation of 34,000.

Introduced in June 1998, The Sunday Citizen is the newest publication in Fayette Publishing's print family. The Sunday Citizen saturates the Fayetteville area with 12,000 copies each Saturday, bringing local church news and information as well as leisure topics and the considered opinions of nationally syndicated columnists.

In early 1997, The Citizen's website, www.thecitizennews.com, was introduced over the Internet. Later that year the first local advertising on the Worldwide Web was uploaded through a program called “Coupons R Us.” Today, The Citizen's in-house webmasters upload the latest news prior to the printing of The Citizen and The Peachtree and Coweta Citizen Reviews.

Readers as far away as Japan, the Balkans and Brazil have e-mailed their appreciation for The Citizen's outstanding local news coverage, now available to millions of potential browsers on the Internet.

Merchants have a wide variety of advertising opportunities, ranging from banner and column ad linkage, to coupons through the Coupons R Us program that allow their customers to print out in their own homes many valuable coupons for wide ranging goods and services.

Through all this growth and change, The Citizen publishers and staff have enjoyed the tremendous support of this community, and we thank you!

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