The Daily Citizen

Name

The Daily Citizen

Legal name

Dalton Daily Citizen

Website

https://dailycitizen.news

Company type

Private

Founded year

1847

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Local newspaper publishing
• Community news coverage
• Classified advertising
• Digital e-edition
• Obituary listings

Headquarters

HQ city

Dalton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Print and Digital Subscriptions: Subscription revenue from physical newspaper delivery and digital e-edition access. Subscribers pay for ongoing access to local news content.
2. Classifieds: Revenue from classified advertisements including local job listings, real estate, and personal classifieds through the marketplace platform.
3. Advertising: Local advertising revenue from businesses targeting the Dalton and Whitfield County community through newspaper placement.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Daily Citizen is a local newspaper publishing operation for Dalton, Georgia and Whitfield County, delivering daily local news, sports, opinion, community events, obituaries, classifieds, and public notices through its print edition, digital e-edition, and online news website. The publication also operates a classifieds marketplace for local job listings, real estate, vehicles, and personal ads, and provides an email newsletter service for community updates.

Product overview

The Daily Citizen is a local newspaper serving Dalton and Whitfield County, Georgia, operated by Carpenter Media Group. The company offers a primary news website delivering local news, sports, opinion, and community content, complemented by an E-Edition digital newspaper replica. Additional products include a classifieds marketplace, dedicated obituaries section, email newsletter service, Georgia public notices search, magazine bookshelf, and reader contests. The portfolio functions as a traditional media operation with digital extensions rather than a unified platform-with-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dalton Daily Citizen (Printed Newspaper) The primary local newspaper publication delivering daily local news, sports, opinion, community coverage, and lifestyle content for Dalton and Whitfield County, Georgia, distributed via home delivery subscription and newsstand.
• E-Edition (Digital Newspaper Replica) Digital replica of the daily newspaper edition accessible online, allowing readers to view the complete newspaper layout with date-based archive access.
• Classifieds Marketplace Online platform for classified advertisements including employment, real estate, vehicles, and personal listings for the local Dalton and Whitfield County community.
• Obituaries Section Dedicated section for obituary listings and death notices serving the Dalton and Northwest Georgia community.
• Email Newsletter Service Email newsletter service delivering local news updates, breaking stories, and targeted content to subscribers in the Dalton and Whitfield County area.
• Georgia Public Notices Repository Public notice search service integrated with the Georgia Public Notice database for legal announcements and government notices in the Dalton area.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Carpenter Media GroupcoreOthersParent media company that owns and operates the Dalton Daily Citizen. Provides corporate infrastructure, shared services, and media network resources. The website footer references Carpenter Media Group as the operating company.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Gannett Co. The largest US local-news operator (USA TODAY Network) and publisher of hundreds of community dailies. Provides the closest large-scale public benchmark for print subscription, classified, and public-notice revenue economics across comparable small markets.
• McClatchy: A former publicly traded newspaper chain (now under Chatham Asset Management) operating regional dailies across the US. Comparable portfolio of mid-market and regional dailies with the same print-to-digital transition headwinds.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia's flagship regional daily, owned by Cox Enterprises via Cox First Media. A scaled incumbent that competes with the Dalton paper for Georgia-state and Atlanta-area classified and display advertising spend.
• Lee Enterprises: A publicly traded owner of mid-sized daily and community newspapers across the US. Closely comparable operating model — subscription, advertising, classifieds, and public notices across small and mid-size markets — providing direct margin and unit-economic benchmarks.

Emerging players

• NewsBreak: A digital local-news platform aggregating and distributing hyperlocal stories via app and web. Represents the digital-native distribution channel that increasingly substitutes for traditional newspaper traffic and ad inventory in markets like Dalton/Whitfield County.
• Patch.com: A digital-native hyperlocal news network covering thousands of US communities. Demonstrates the digital-local format that competes with the Dalton paper for local audience attention and SMB advertiser share, particularly in classifieds and community event listings.

Others

• Carpenter Media Group: The parent conglomerate that owns and operates the Dalton Daily Citizen along with a portfolio of other small-market dailies across the South and Midwest. Operationally relevant because its sibling properties share the same back-office, ad-tech, and content-services infrastructure.

Regional players

• Chattanooga Times Free Press: The regional daily serving the Chattanooga metropolitan area that includes Dalton's local TV and radio market. Overlaps with Dalton Daily Citizen's readership geography for state/national coverage and competes for the same regional SMB advertiser budgets.

Direct peers

• Calhoun Times: A daily community newspaper serving Calhoun, Georgia and Gordon County — the immediate adjacent market to Dalton/Whitfield County. Same small-market NW Georgia profile, same print+digital+classifieds product mix, and similar role as the dominant local daily in its county.
• Rome News-Tribune: A long-standing daily newspaper serving Rome and Floyd County in Northwest Georgia, several counties west of Dalton. Operates a comparable portfolio of print edition, e-edition, classifieds, and public-notice services for a similarly sized regional Georgia community.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thedailycitizen

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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