newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports 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 14,855 as of the ...
, United States. It 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
New Mexico Territory
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of ''Santa Fe de Nuevo México ...
from 1897 to 1906, described it as a Democratic paper unfavourable to the Republican Party.Richard C. Sandoval, Ree Sheck, ''Explore New Mexico: Insider's Guide: Getaways in the Land of Enchantment'', ''
New Mexico Magazine
''New Mexico Magazine'' was launched in 1923, and is the first state magazine founded in the United States. It is published monthly in print, online, and via an iOS app. Additionally, the magazine also maintains a store, selling New Mexico-relate ...
'', 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
MediaNews Group
MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns over 100 newspa ...
, 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
Las Cruces (; "the crosses") is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 censu ...
''". 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 McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. 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 Silver City Independent. It continued to publish on Wednesdays and Fridays with a news staff of two local reporters.Independent publisher buys Silver City, Deming papers /ref>