Showing posts with label Rocky Mountain News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocky Mountain News. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

What Happens When a Town Loses Its Newspaper?

Disused newspaper racks clutter a storage yard without newspapers
Disused newspaper racks clutter a storage yard. [Noah Berger / AP]

What effect do newspaper closings really have on a town? Or a nation? Depending on a person's reading habits, the answers to these questions range from "It's the death of democracy!" to "Newspapers? What newspapers?" But with the demise of two major metropolitan dailies, the 149-year old Rocky Mountain News and the almost equally venerable 145-year old Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the last month alone, the issue is becoming a matter of practical rather than just theoretical concern. [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Rocky Mountain News: Final Edition


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It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. Thousands of men and women have worked at this newspaper since William Byers produced its first edition on the banks of Cherry Creek on April 23, 1859. We speak, we believe, for all of them, when we say that it has been an honor to serve you. To have reached this day, the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, just 55 days shy of its 150th birthday is painful. We will scatter. And all that will be left are the stories we have told, captured on microfilm or in digital archives, devices unimaginable in those first days. [Click for MORE]


Rocky Mountain News closes, publishes final edition

Colorado's oldest newspaper published its final edition Friday. The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Rocky Mountain News to Close,
Publish Final Edition Friday

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The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last paper tomorrow.

Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, broke the news to the Rocky staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of speculation over the paper's future. He called the paper a victim of a terrible economy and an upheaval in the newspaper industry.

"Denver can't support two newspapers anymore," Boehne told staffers, some of whom cried at the news.

On Dec. 4, Boehne announced that Scripps was looking for a buyer for the Rocky and its 50 percent interest in the Denver Newspaper Agency, the company that handles business matters for the papers, because it couldn't continue to sustain its financial losses in Denver. Scripps said the Rocky lost $16 million in 2008. [Click for MORE]

'Rocky' Web Site Offers Blow-By-Blow of Staffers Reacting to Closing-- and Their Questions

A special page at the Web site of the Rocky Mountain News this afternoon chronicled, minute-by-minute, the announcement of the daily's closing, staff reaction and questions they posed to Scripps executives. [Click for MORE]

The "live" blogging is at:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/live-coverage-official-announcement-rocky/


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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Rocky Mountain News Up for Sale


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The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper, has been put up for sale by its parent company.

Citing worsening financial conditions, the E.W. Scripps Co. said it will weigh any offers through mid-January. If no buyer emerges, it will consider shutting down the newspaper. [Click for MORE]

> Early Rocky reaction
> Bloodbath nears 2,000 at Gannett
> Chicago Tribune eliminates more than a dozen newsroom jobs
> Bakersfield Californian lays off about 10% of its workforce
> Santa Barbara News-Press parent cuts 17 positions
> Elsewhere: AT&T, DuPont, Viacom and Credit Suisse combine to take another 20,000-plus jobs out of the work force.
> Media job losses mount with Viacom, NBC slashing jobs
> AP Cuts 10% of Workforce, Newspaper Guild Trims Publication Schedule
> Layoffs at Random House, Simon & Schuster
> No relief in sight as radio ad revenue declines
> Layoffs gut Hollywood Reporter
> Layoffs at the Los Angeles Daily News

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