Urbana Daily Citizen

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{{Infobox newspaper

| name = Urbana Daily Citizen

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| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = {{start date|1838}}

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| owners = AIM Media Midwest

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| headquarters = 1637 East U.S. Highway 36, Suite 5,
Urbana, Ohio 43078, {{nowrap|United States}}

| oclc = 17246812

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| website = [http://www.urbanacitizen.com urbanacitizen.com]

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The Urbana Daily Citizen is an American daily newspaper published in Urbana, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.

The newspaper was part of the Brown Publishing Company chain that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 30, 2010;{{cite news | url = http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/brown-publishing-creditors-clash-over-sale-plans-785011.html | title = Brown Publishing, Creditors Clash Over Sale Plans | first = Ben | last = Sutherly | work = Dayton Daily News | date = June 26, 2010 | access-date = December 15, 2010 }} its Ohio assets, including 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, were transferred to a new business, Ohio Community Media, which was purchased in May 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-28741410.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610231148/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-28741410.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2014|title=Business Headlines: Local Newspapers Have New Owners|access-date=June 8, 2012|newspaper=Dayton Daily News|date=May 21, 2011}}

In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media.{{citation |access-date=April 10, 2017|url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |author=Business Wire | title= Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC }} Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.{{Cite web| title = Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017| work = Dirks, Van Essen & Murray| access-date = 2017-10-28| date = 2017-06-30| url = http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/}}