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The ''West Marin Citizen'' was a weekly newspaper based in Point Reyes Station, California, that covered the western region of Marin County. After a pilot edition, the paper published its first issue on July 5, 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=West Marin Citizen website )〕 In the following years through April 2015, the newspaper engaged in a two-paper competition for limited readership and advertising dollars in a rural area where both were relatively scarce.〔 Joel Hack launched the ''Citizen'' in reaction to the purchase of the ''Point Reyes Light'', a long-established, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper also based in Point Reyes Station, by Robert Plotkin, who owned the paper between 2005-2010. The change in ownership, after the $500,000 sale by long-time owner and editor Dave Mitchell, had led to a different editorial tone and staff changes.〔("Nothing laid-back about paper's readers" ) by Peter Fimrite,''San Francisco Chronicle'', June 9, 2007, retrieved 2009-01-06.〕 Former ''Light'' managing editor Jim Kravets was the paper's first editor. Contributors included members of the local Latino Photography Project, whose work ran as an ongoing series called "La Vida". In August 2008, the ''Citizen'' won six awards from the National Newspaper Association based on the paper's first six months of reporting.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2008 Better Newspaper Contest Winners )〕 In mid-2008, a group of residents formed a limited liability company with the intent of merging the ''Light'' and ''Citizen'' to create a single community-owned newspaper, but by the end of the year, could not come to terms with the ''Lights publisher on a price or the terms of the proposed buyout. The group, reconstituted as the Marin Media Alliance, focused its effort towards community ownership solely on the ''Citizen''.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 The effort was not successful. In October 2010, Hack retired as editor and publisher, turning the paper over to advertising director Linda Petersen. Under her watch, The ''Citizen'' leaned more toward features and reader-contributed pieces, while the ''Light ''worked on a more traditional newspaper model of reporters filing news stories. But financial struggles affected both papers and left Peterson with no paid staff. In April 2015, she sold the paper to the ''Light'' for $50,000. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Marin Citizen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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