Veteran Rocky Mountain News staffer John Ensslin (pictured) isn't one of those reporters who files his stories and then forgets about journalism until he's back on the clock the next day. As president of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the program director for the Denver Press Club, he spends much of his free time connecting with fellow scribes. It's no surprise, then, that he was part of a December 13 meeting of Rocky employees at the Press Club that birthe
There's a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the Rocky Mountain News, which was put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, in December. As such, the timing of a planned demonstration in support of the paper -- it's scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 29, beginning at 6:30 p.m. -- seems risky. But Rocky reporter John Ensslin, a primary organizer of the event, emphasizes that outside occurrences won't derail things.
"We're doing it no matter what happens," Ensslin says. "If
In the January 23 blog "Details About Next Week's Candlelight Rally for the Rocky Mountain News," reporter John Ensslin, one of the event's organizers, said, "There'll be no speechifying. It'll be just a silent, dignified, elegant way to express our concern, affection and support for the paper."
Judging by the video above, which is posted on IWantMyRocky.com, a website created to generate support for the paper, which was put up for sale last month by its owner, E.W. Scripps, things didn't qui
The Rocky Mountain News website is currently frozen in time. It continues to function, but the latest content involves the paper's closure last week. Flipping through its cyber-pages is akin to peeking through the windows of a restaurant shuttered by the feds: Everything remains as it was during the good times, but it's beginning to collect dust.
Not so IWantMyRocky.com, a website created by Rocky loyalists as a side project last December. In a blog from that month, ex-Rocky scribe John Enssl
Back in December, when IWantMyRocky.com debuted, John Ensslin, one of numerous Rocky Mountain News employees who helped launch the project, described the website as "more of a rally-the-troops kind of thing, where people can post their comments or even videos."
Although the site succeeded in that respect, the enthusiasm and camaraderie it helped foster wasn't enough to keep the Rocky in business. IWantMyRocky.com didn't vanish in tandem with the tabloid, though. Instead, remaining staffers us
