Tri-City Record

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Tri-City Record
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s)Ballantine Communications Inc.
EditorTrent Stephens
Founded1890 (as Junction City Times)
Language English
Headquarters108 Main Street
City Farmington, New Mexico
CountryUnited States
Sister newspapers The Durango Herald
OCLC number 30024519
Website tricityrecordnm.com

The Tri-City Record is a newspaper in Farmington, New Mexico, United States. It covers northwest New Mexico and Navajo Nation.

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History

The newspaper began in 1890 as the Junction City Times. [1] The paper went through various mergers and acquisitions over the years, which resulted in multiple name changes. The name changed in the early 1900s to the Farmington Times. It was later known as the Farmington Times-Hustler [2] [3] following the 1903 merger of the Farmington Hustler and the Farmington Times. [4] It went daily on August 1, 1949, becoming "the first daily paper in the history of Farmington." [5] The change from a weekly to a daily paper prompted the owner Lincoln O'Brien to change the paper's name to the Farmington Daily Times. [1]

In June 2015, Gannett acquired fully-ownership of the Farmington Daily Times and ten other newspapers from Digital First Media. [6] A rival newspaper called the Tri-City Record was founded in May 2023 by Ballantine Communications Inc. [7] The Farmington Daily Times was acquired by Ballantine a year later and merged into the Tri-City Record. [1]

Notable staff

Val Cooper, one of the first women to report on hard news for the Associated Press, worked for the Farmington Daily Times for 26 years starting in 1953. She was the managing editor for 14 years. Cooper was the first woman to be the managing editor of a daily newspaper in New Mexico. [8]

The artist Will Evans was a columnist. [2]

Awards

The Farmington Daily Times won the Associated Press Managing Editors Association International Perspective Award in 2011 for its coverage of broadband access on Navajo Nation. [9]

It won the New Mexico Press Association E.H. Shaffer Award for general excellence two years in a row in 2017 and 2018. [10]

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