Comments on: R.I.P. (Again) Tucson Citizen

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Creating Community… Not Followers (Social Networking Rant) | — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:06:02 +0000

[...] Tucson Citizen [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:18:29 +0000

I was going to be a journalist. In college I got distracted and changed majors. I soooo dodged a bullet.

By: Debating The New York Times’ Future :Newspaper Ad Rate

Debating The New York Times’ Future :Newspaper Ad Rate — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:36:28 +0000

[...] yet for the Tucson Citizen. A federal judge is expected to rule today on whether the Citizen, which formally closed down on Saturday, must resume publication. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard argued that Gannett Co. and Lee [...]

By: paulgillin

paulgillin — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:31:18 +0000

You’re right: The Citizen is Arizona’s oldest daily, not America’s.

By: Timbo

Timbo — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:36:48 +0000

Looks like the NY Times has them beat since it started running in 1851: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_times

By: Robert Alou

Robert Alou — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:20:07 +0000

Gannett is scum. They taint everything that they touch. The death of the business is appropriate.

By: Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:30:14 +0000

The “America’s oldest newspaper” citation was from the Citizen itself. However, that story has now been taken down and I believe that the designation was in error. I’ll check and correct. Thanks for pointing out the possible mistake.

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:16:43 +0000

Thanks for pointing out that error.

I come from Montréal, Québec, Canada and we had a newspaper older than that, by about a month.

The journal “Opinion Publique” was out there in 1870 too.

There were various tracts and screeds before but none were daily papers.

I need an editor to catch my missing words, and you need a fact checker.

(And on my comment above replace “RSS podcast printed edition” with “RSS podcast distributed edition”)

By: David Francis

David Francis — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:38:05 +0000

I don’t mean to nit pick – but I was trying to confirm the opening sentence; “The 138-year-old Tucson Citizen, America’s oldest newspaper…”

After reading up on this, I think you meant to write “Arizona’s oldest newspaper.”

This hits home for me because it is my home town and I thought I would share.

That said, I read this site very regularly, yet this is my first comment.

By: Pete Kosednar

Pete Kosednar — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:22:20 +0000

Wow – the internet version of the newspaper will have no news! How can you have internet based newspaper with no news? Stupid business decision.