The Daily Citizen

Established in 1847 as The North Georgia Citizen, today The Daily Citizen is the flagship publication of the North Georgia Newspaper Group.

The Daily Citizen, a 7-day-a-week morning newspaper, is based in Dalton, Ga., which is just more than an hour north of Atlanta and 25 minutes south of Chattanooga on Interstate 75. The Dalton area is home to the largest carpet industries in the world, which gives it the title as the Carpet Capital of the World.

Committed to delivering outstanding publications, products and services supported by second-to-none customer service, The Daily Citizen is a locally-operated part of Birmingham, Ala.-based Newspaper Holdings Inc.

In addition to The Daily Citizen, the North Georgia Newspaper Group publishes: The Weekly Citizen, a weekly TMC product with a circulation of 19,000; El Informador, a 8,500 circulation free weekly Hispanic newspaper distributed in racks only throughout northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee; Dalton magazine, a bi-monthly magazine that was started in mid-2005 with a circulation of 5,000; Calhoun magazine, a bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of 4,500 distributed in Gordon county; Catoosa magazine with a circulation of 4,500 distributed in Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe. The newspaper group also publishes a number of special sections and niche publications that are distributed with the above-mentioned products or in a stand-alone format. Additionally, the newspaper group also operates the Internet site you are visiting – www.daltonnow.com – and performs commercial printing work.