At around 11 a.m. today, two prominent churches on the Auraria campus were hosting very different functions. A group of down-on-their-luck people stood in a line behind St. Elizabeth of Hungary to receive a donated lunch. Meanwhile, several hundred yards away, thirty former Rocky Mountain News journalists and a trio of businessmen gathered in front of St. Cajetan's Center before a slew of electronic and print reporters to announce a new project: In Denver Times. The proposed online newspaper,
Steve Foster speaking at the March 16 In Denver Times press conference.
As noted in Tuesday's blog "Highlights from the In Denver Times Launch Announcement Press Conference," Steve Foster is among the driving forces behind the project, which will debut in May with a thirty-person staff culled from the Rocky Mountain News if 50,000 subscribers agree to pay around $60 per year for the service by April 23, the 150th anniversary of the Rocky's birth. Yesterday, Foster spelled out more details about
INDenver Times' Kevin Preblud at the March press conference announcing the venture.
In a March 24 Q&A, Kevin Preblud, one of three entrepreneurs backing INDenver Times, an online project featuring thirty former members of the now-shuttered Rocky Mountain News, declined to say how many people had subscribed to the service, but promised that the data would be released "shortly." Over three weeks later, and just one week before the Times' April 23 deadline to reach 50,000 subscriptions, "shortly"
