Braxton Citizens' News

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Braxton Citizens' News
Type Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)Edward R. Given
Founded1976
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersSutton, West Virginia, USA
Circulation 5,718(as of 2016) [1]
Website bcn-news.com

The Braxton Citizens' News is a weekly newspaper serving the Sutton, West Virginia area in the United States. [2] It is published each Friday. [3]

History

The Braxton Citizens' News began in 1976 under publisher Edward R. Given. [4] Given, a former advertising manager for the Braxton Democrat , founded the paper to focus more on school and sports news. [5] Given has served as a director of the West Virginia Press Association. [6] [7] Given also served as mayor of Sutton in the 1990s; he shared a similar name with his successor, Edgar G. Given. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

The offices of the Braxton Democrat-Central were gutted by a fire in 2006. Under Given's leadership, the Citizens' News offered extensive aid to the rival paper, to help ensure they could continue publishing. Given and Democrat-Central publisher Craig Smith have an enduring personal and professional friendship, and have served as sources for one another's sources. [13]

Given won the top state press award for an individual journalist in 2013, being named the "Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist of the Year." [14] [10]

In 2015, the Citizens' News became the first affiliate to join the WVJobFinder web site launched by Charleston Newspapers, and expressed excitement about the prospect of statewide job recruitment through the site. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  4. ↑ "About Braxton citizen's news. Sutton, W. Va. (1976-current)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "New Braxton County Weekly Begins Publication Monday". Sunday Gazette-Mail. 8 February 1976. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Horne to lead press group". The Charleston Daily Mail. The Associated Press. August 18, 1997.
  7. ↑ "Buzzerd heads WV - Press Association". The Morgan Messenger. August 25, 2004.
  8. ↑ "Sutton Mayor Dies from Cancer". The Charleston Daily Mail. The Associated Press. June 17, 1996.
  9. ↑ "IT'S A GIVEN, WHO WILL BE MAYOR OF SUTTON, W. VA". The Buffalo News (NY). June 25, 1995.
  10. 1 2 "West Virginia Press Association honors Given of Braxton Citizens' News as Premier Journalist". August 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ Brady, Thomas J. (June 29, 1995). "THE SCENE IN THE NATION AND THE WORLD". The Philadelphia Inquirer (PA).
  12. ↑ "ED GIVEN WINS ... AND LOSES". The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ). June 25, 1995.
  13. ↑ Anderson, Justin D. (March 23, 2006). "Rivals cooperate after fire: Editor of Braxton newspaper donates equipment to competitor whose office was gutted in fire". Charleston Daily Mail.
  14. ↑ "Daily Mail takes top state press awards". The Charleston Daily Mail. August 12, 2013.
  15. ↑ "WVJobfinder network gains first affiliate". The Charleston Gazette-Mail. November 15, 2015.
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