The ''Ouachita Citizen'' is a weekly newspaper published in

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. The ''Ouachita Citizen'' began publication in 1924 as ''West Monroe Churchman''. Through a succession of owner-publishers, the name became ''West Monroe Citizen'' in 1925 and ''Ouachita Citizen'' in 1928. For more than two decades, it was published by Bert Hatten, the

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of West Monroe from 1966 to 1978. Since 1996, the ''Ouachita Citizen'' has been part of Sam Hanna Newspapers, a family-owned cluster including the ''Concordia Sentinel'' in Ferriday and

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, and the ''Franklin Sun'' in Winnsboro. As of 2014, the paid circulation of all three newspapers was 17,500, with the ''Ouachita Citizen'' having 5,200 subscribers. The Sam Hanna family has long been active in the Louisiana Press Association. In the spring of 2014, the ''Ouachita Citizen'' became the source of a national news story when a

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was anonymously left with the newspaper. The video, which

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once released by the ''Ouachita Citizen'', allegedly showed

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( R – Swartz) in a controversial kissing embrace with a member of his congressional staff, both of them being married to others.

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