Jinx.
Last month, the two dailies stopped arriving at my house. The last time I'd reupped my subscription, I hadn't been able to commit beyond six months -- I simply didn't think that both papers would be around that long. And in November, the end of one seemed so inevitable that I postponed re-upping altogether.
Back in town after a Thanksgiving holiday, on Sunday I stopped at Safeway to buy the Saturday Rocky Mountain News, Sunday Denver Post and Sunday New York Times. It came to a whopping
As you can see, the logo of the Denver Newspaper Agency declares the business to be "The Publisher of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News" -- but evidence uncovered by indefatigable Rocky business scribe David Milstead suggests that DNA officials are already preparing for the day when that's no longer the case. Moments ago, the Rocky's website published "Denver Newspaper Agency Plans for One-Newspaper Town," which reveals the existence of a letter that declares, "Effective March 1, 2009, o
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In newspaper parlance, a bulldog is an early edition -- most commonly a version of the Sunday paper sold on Saturdays. Since time immemorial, the Denver Post has published such a product, but no more. Jim Nolan, spokesman for the Denver Newspaper Agency, confirms that the Post's bulldog was discontinued on the weekend of February 7-8.
Why did the Post put the bulldog down? Cost-cutting is a likely reason. Perhaps bean-counters discovered that the extra revenue generat
In "Loss of Rocky Mountain News Doesn't Add Up to Big Subscription Savings -- But I'm Not Complaining," a March 10 blog, I wrote about receiving a card from the Denver Post letting me know that my "premium dual publication" subscription rate from the days when I received both the Post and the Rocky would be going down in the wake of the Rocky's closure, but not by anything resembling 50 percent. Indeed, the total only shrank from $170.65 to $133.95. And yet, compared to the $408 per annum Mass
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"Post Pleased By Numbers," a Denver Post article about its latest circulation figures, is journalistically appalling -- and absolutely nothing new. Whereas the Rocky Mountain News' circulation reports were typically tough and unexpectedly evenhanded over the course of recent years, the Post's versions during the same period have been purely promotional -- more business-department hokum than good-business-reporter skepticism. And the latest, in which staffer Aldo Svaldi finds the
