Milton Keynes Citizen

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| name = Milton Keynes Citizen

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| type = Weekly newspaper

| format = Tabloid

| foundation = 1981

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| founder = Bill Alder

| owners = National World

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| language = English

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| circulation = 31,015

| circulation_date = 2023

| headquarters = Bletchley (Milton Keynes){{cite web |last1=Lambourne |first1=Helen |title=Johnston Press seeks more than £8m from sale of offices |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2013/news/johnston-press-seeks-more-than-8m-from-sale-of-offices/ |website=HoldtheFrontPage |access-date=2 May 2023 |date=14 November 2013}}

| circulation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/6366 |title= Milton Keynes Citizen |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) |date=19 February 2024 |access-date=18 May 2024}}

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The Milton Keynes Citizen is the only freely distributed local newspaper in Milton Keynes. The newspaper is owned by National World.{{cite web |last1=Holmwood |first1=Leigh |title=Milton Keynes Citizen staff vote to strike |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jan/11/pressandpublishing.tradeunions |website=The Guardian |access-date=30 April 2023 |date=11 January 2008}}{{cite web |title=Owners of Milton Keynes Citizen to enter administration |url=https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/owners-of-milton-keynes-citizen-enter-administration/ |website=MKFM |access-date=30 April 2023 |date=16 November 2018}}

The MK Citizen was founded by Bill Alder and {{citation needed span|date=April 2023|Jerry West on 1 October}} 1981{{cite web |title=Former local press owner pleads guilty to theft charges |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/archive-content/former-local-press-owner-pleads-guilty-to-theft-charges/ |website=Press Gazette |access-date=30 April 2023 |date=28 June 2006}} and they sold to EMAP in 1987{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} and the purchase was completed in April 1990. EMAP sold the paper to Johnston Publishing in the 1990s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} The newspaper had a circulation of 95,464 in 2000{{cite web |title=Johnston Press PLC Report & Accounts 2000 |url=https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive/j/LSE_JPR_2000.pdf |access-date=30 April 2023}} and 97,714 in 2010.{{cite web |title=ABC figures: How the UK's weekly newspapers fared |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2010/news/abc-figures-how-the-uk-s-weekly-newspapers-fared/ |website=HoldtheFrontPage |access-date=2 May 2023 |date=25 August 2010}}