Farmington Daily Times

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Farmington Daily Times
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s)Ballantine Communications Inc.
EditorJohn Moses
Founded1890
Language English
City Farmington, New Mexico
CountryUnited States
OCLC number 30024519
Website daily-times.com

The Farmington Daily Times is a daily 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 1 August 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 10 other newspapers from Digital First Media. [6] In May 2024, the Farmington Daily Times was sold to Ballantine Communications Inc., which owns The Durango Herald . The new owners announced plans to absorb the paper into the Tri-City Record, three-times a week paper founded in Farmington a year prior. [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.

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. [7]

It won the New Mexico Press Association E.H. Shaffer Award for general excellence two years in a row in 2017 and 2018. [8]

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