The ''Deming Headlight'' is a

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Deming, New Mexico Deming (, ''DEM-ing'') is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, Luna County, New Mexico, United States, west of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Las Cruces and north of the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border. The population was 14,758 as of the ...

, United States.

History

The newspaper was founded by J.E. Curren with its first edition published June 25, 1881.Library of Congress, ''About Deming Headlight (Deming, N.M.) 1881-1948'

/ref>William Gillet Ritch, Edgar Caypless, ''A Complete Business Directory of New Mexico, and Gazetteer of the Territory for 1882'', New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company, 1882, p. 8

/ref> In his autobiography, Miguel Antonio Otero (born 1859), Miguel Antonio Otero, the Governor of the

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from 1897 to 1906, described it as a Democratic paper unfavorable to the Republican Party.Richard C. Sandoval, Ree Sheck, ''Explore New Mexico: Insider's Guide: Getaways in the Land of Enchantment'', '' New Mexico Magazine'', 1989, p. 2

/ref>Miguel Antonio Otero, ''My Nine Years as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, 1897–1906'', Sustone Press, 2007, p. 2

/ref> Through 1948 it was published weekly except for a period from September 1883 to June 1886 when it was published daily in order to compete with the Deming Tribune and Lake Valley Herald before returning to weekly after the Tribune folded. Curren traded the paper for the Kingston Clipper and left for Sierra County in 1884. From 1949 to 1956, the Deming Headlight and the Deming Graphic were consolidated under single ownership and both continued to be published on Tuesdays and Fridays until the publications separated again in 1956 Library of Congress, ''About The Deming graphic and the Deming headlight (Deming, N.M.) 1949-1956'

/ref> under publisher David Watson.Library of Congress, ''About The Deming headlight. (Deming, N.M.) 1956-current'

/ref> In the late 20th century the ''Headlight'' was owned by

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, and described on its masthead as "an edition of the ''

Las Cruces Sun-News ''Las Cruces Sun-News'', founded in 1881, is a daily newspaper published in Las Cruces, New Mexico. History The ''Sun-News'' started in 1881 as the ''Rio Grande Republican'' and went through several mergers to become the ''Las Cruces Daily News ...

''". It was part of the Texas-New Mexico Newspaper Partnership between MediaNews and

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...

. In 2015, Gannett acquired full ownership of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership. The ''Headlight'' published daily from 1978 until April 2017, after publisher Rynni Henderson announced that the Headlight would reduce its print edition from five to two issues weekly, publishing on Wednesdays and Fridays, as part of a "digital first approach" emphasizing internet publication. The change in schedule took effect in April of that year. On November 1, 2022, the ''Headlight'' was purchased from Gannett by Nickolas Seibel, publisher of the '' Silver City Daily Press and Independent''.

References

External links

Official website
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