On May 16, 1946, Lloyd P. Bloodworth first published the
Ruidoso News in Ruidoso, New Mexico. In 1949, he sold the paper Louis R. Spain, and bought it back a year later. In 1951, Bloodworth sold the
News again, this time to Ben Vaughn and Victor "Vic" Lamb. Vaughn soon exited the business. In 1953, Lamb acquired a press and opened a print shop in Ruidoso. In 1968, Barney Barnett, of
San Luis Obispo, California, bought the
News, only for ownership to revert back to Lamb less than a year later. Barnett said he sold the paper because his political and social views greatly differed from those of Ruidoso residents. A month later, Lamb bought a
variety store in
Sedona, Arizona. In 1970, husband-and-wife Alton and Glorianna Lane bought the paper. In 1975, brothers Ken Green and Walt Green, publishers of the
Artesia Daily Press and
Deming Headlight, bought the
News from the Lanes. In 1988, the Green family sold the
News,
Headlight and
El Defensor-Chieftain to
Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the
Washington Redskins and the
Los Angeles Daily News. In 1989, Cooke acquired the
Valencia County News-Bulletin. Cooke sold his four New Mexican papers to WorldWest in 1994. The
News was acquired by
MediaNews Group in 2001.
Gannett bought the
News in 2015, and sold it, along with the
Carlsbad Current-Argus and
Alamogordo Daily News, to El Rito Media, LLC in 2024. ==References==