Springfield Daily Citizen

The Springfield Daily Citizen is our community’s newest news outlet, with a mission to inform our community and be a catalyst for good.

The Daily Citizen was created by Springfieldians for Springfieldians as a response to shrinking local news coverage in the Queen City. Its CEO, David Stoeffler, came home to Springfield from Wisconsin, where he lived for a few years after editing the News-Leader from 2010 to 2014. Every one of the Daily Citizen’s board and staff members is either from the Springfield area or has a connection to Springfield and Missouri. That’s a point of pride for David and his team.

As a nonprofit, the Daily Citizen answers to readers, not to shareholders. So, it’s able to make promises other media outlets can’t. The Daily Citizen pledges to:

• Reinvent local news by telling the stories of our community;
• Remain independent, impartial, fair, and unbiased in its reporting;
• Inspire you to take action on the issues that are important to you; and
• Help you connect to the community and enjoy the arts, culture, outdoors and other aspects of life here.

Since the Daily Citizen launched on February 14, it’s published more than 250 pieces of original and partner content, ranging from a profile of Greene County Juvenile Judge Andy Hosmer to Steve Pokin’s Pokin Around columns to an examination of Missouri’s arts funding, which gets millions of dollars less than what’s allocated by state law.

In the coming months, the Daily Citizen will continue to explore significant issues that surfaced in Springfield’s 2021 Community Focus Report, among them the problems faced by our unsheltered residents; the additional stresses placed on systems intended to support our most vulnerable populations; and the complications many families face thanks to the lack of available, safe childcare options. Stories about all of these issues are already available on the site.

The Daily Citizen is a solid investment for anyone – but you don’t have to make a financial commitment to read it right now. All content is free to the public initially.

If you’d like to get to know this new face in the community, click here. And don’t forget to sign up for the Daily Citizen’s free newsletter, SGF A.M. – it’ll arrive in your inbox each morning with local news from our reporters.