The Citizen

The Citizen, Gloucestershire’s biggest selling newspaper, is an evening tabloid newspaper sold on Mondays to Saturdays in the city of Gloucester, parts of Cheltenham and most of central, northern and western Gloucestershire, from Ross-on-Wye, Newent and the Forest of Dean to the west to Tewkesbury to the north, the Cotswolds to the east and Stroud, Stonehouse and Dursley to the south.

It traces its roots to the 1722 foundation of the Gloucester Journal and claims to be the second oldest continuously published newspaper in the world, although in fact The Citizen wasn’t launched until 1876 – the two titles amalgamated three years later. It’s published by Gloucestershire Media, a subsidiary of the Daily Mail & General Trust’s regional and local newspaper publishing division, Northcliffe Media; Northcliffe bought the paper in 1928.

The editorial offices are in Gloucester.

It’s the county’s biggest selling title and claims to reach more people in Gloucestershire than any other newspaper, magazine or radio station. It comes in two editions: the Main edition and a Forest edition, started in January 2011, for the Forest of Dean in the west of the county.

In 1891 it became the first UK newspaper to have a football edition, the Pink Un, which later became a supplement.

Its web presence is through Gloucestershire Media’s thisisgloucestershire.co.uk website.

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