Key West Citizen

The Key West Citizen looks at 125 years

From its humble beginnings as a small but influential newspaper to its current stature as the only daily newspaper based in Monroe County, the Key West Citizen has undergone major transformations during its 125-year history.

Through war and peace, prosperity and the Great Depression, the paper has become a Key West institution that has survived all the great local newspaper wars this century and become, in the words of Monroe County historian Tom Hambright, “The newspaper of record,” for the Florida Keys.