Las Vegas Optic

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The Las Vegas Optic
TypeTwice-Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)O’Rourke Media Group
EditorPhil Scherer
LanguageEnglish
Website lasvegasoptic.com

The Las Vegas Optic is a newspaper located in Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1] Published on Wednesday and Friday of each week, it serves San Miguel and Mora counties.

History

Founded in 1879 as the Las Vegas Weekly Optic., [2] then owner and editor, Russell A. Kistler, revamped the struggling weekly into a daily paper, calling it the Las Vegas Daily Optic. [3] In 1908, the Las Vegas Daily Optic was renamed the Las Vegas Optic [4]

In 2021, the newspaper's owner Landmark Community Newspapers was sold to Paxton Media Group. [5] A couple months later the Las Vegas Optic was sold to O’Rourke Media Group. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Anderson, George B. (1907). History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People, Volume 1. Pacific States Publishing Company. p.  476 . Retrieved June 29, 2018. Las Vegas Optic.
  2. ↑ "Las Vegas daily optic". Library of Congress.
  3. ↑ "About Las Vegas daily optic. (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908". Library of Congress.
  4. ↑ "About Las Vegas daily optic". Library of Congress.
  5. ↑ "Paxton Media Group buying Landmark Community Newspapers". The Associated Press. May 26, 2021. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  6. ↑ "O'Rourke Media Group Acquires Las Vegas (NM) Optic from Paxton Media Group". Dirks, Van Essen & April. June 23, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2024.


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