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By Greg Fry

Newspaper industry

Prince George Citizen transitioning from a daily to a weekly newspaper

Sep 18, 2019 | 8:01 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — Big changes are in store for the Prince George Citizen newspaper.

Tonight in a letter to its readers on its website, Colleen Sparrow, Publisher and General Manager and Neil Godbout, Editor-in-chief, announced the daily newspaper would be switching to a free weekly newspaper effective October 3.

“Change is inevitable,” they wrote, adding it was “not a decision that was made lightly or quickly.”

They instead called it “a necessary one in order to keep in step with the changing needs, habits and appetite for readily-available, quality journalism for local residents.”

With that in mind, they said its website remains the hub of the papers daily content and will be updated constantly.

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The Prince George Citizen first began publication 103 years ago, when it was also a weekly.

The paper has been a daily since 1957 though in February 2016 it went from publishing six days a week to five.