The Roswell Daily Record first founded in the 1900s announced Wednesday that it was sold.
The announcement was made two days after the Daily Record said it was “ceasing operations and “undertaking an orderly liquidation of its assets to satisfy outstanding liabilities, obligations, and operating expenses to the extent possible,” via an article posted on the newspaper’s website at about 10:30 a.m., July 13.
The buyer New Mexico News Group and Ctrl+P Publishing, owned by Pat Davis, was announced in a subsequent July 15 article on the Daily Record’s website.
New Mexico News Group will publish the paper starting in August, and current owners will aid in the transition, read the article. Terms of the sale, including the price, were not disclosed.
New Mexico News Group publishes the Santa Fe Reporter, The Paper, Corrales Comment and Rout 66 Independent.
Amid the transition, El Rito Media launched RoswellTribune.com, a local news and sports online outlet covering Roswell, Chaves County and the surrounding area.
New Mexico-based El Rito Media was founded in 2022 with its purchase of the Rio Grande Sun in Espanola, Artesia Daily Press in 2024 and the Alamogordo News, Carlsbad Current-Argus and Ruidoso News in 2025.
El Rito plans to offer online coverage in the immediate aftermath of the Roswell Daily Record’s sale, with plans to offer a print newspaper in the near future. The company is also providing free subscriptions to any of its papers for the next 13 weeks.
“Our company is committed to advancing New Mexico journalism, especially in the southeast region,” said Managing Editor Adrian Hedden. “The Roswell Daily Record has been a titan of New Mexico journalism for more than a century, and we will work to fill any gaps left by this transition.”
The sale of the Daily Record comes after significant changes were announced in 2024, when the newspaper’s print frequency dropped from five days a week to three days with two digital “e-editions” on days the paper was not printed.
And in October 2025, the Daily Record announced it was ceasing its in-housing print operations, closing a local printing press and moving such operations to Santa Fe.
“It’s about connecting a community’s history with the present reality and then adapting so that our community and the newspaper can move into the future successfully together. I would like to thank all our employees for their dedicated service to the newspaper throughout the years,” wrote Publisher Barbara Beck in an Oct. 8, 2025 editorial announcing the changes.
