Last edition
February 27th, 2009 at 05:20pm Anna Derocher
I realize that only journalists may care about this story.
I am a journalist and I care.
I wrote yesterday about the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. Today, I watched this well-done video that documents from the time staffers learned the Rocky was for sale through yesterday when they found out that today’s paper would be the last. The competition and now the only newspaper in Denver, The Post, covered the story, too. Only 10 of the Rocky’s 250 newsroom staffers will be absorbed by The Post.
Found “I Want My Rocky” today, too. It’s a blog started by Rocky staffers after they heard about the sale and rumors surfaced about a shut down.
I got teary-eyed reading/watching this stuff.
Entry Filed under: Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News
2 Comments Add your own
1. G. Kent | February 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Nobody’ll cry when the rrstar folds! I give it 5 years.
2. Tim Keller | March 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 am
Even sooner than that. The content in the paper is average at best. And nobody wants to read about social networking links on the online edition. We want news!
Your newspaper didn’t even get a sniff of the story about IBM possibly coming to Rockford until late in the game. What exactly do you people do all day? Prop up your Facebook pages?
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