Subject: Mike Littwin

• Hot Burnin'

  February 1, 2007

• This Blog May Not Be Suitable for Children

  June 27, 2007

• Traveling With the Denver Media

  May 9, 2008

• Rocky Mountain News Embraces Aging Demographic

  June 9, 2008

• The Rocky Mountain News Almost Lets George Carlin Swear

  August 12, 2008

• The bad economy and the Barack Obama's-a-Muslim lie

  September 16, 2008

• Westward Hoaxes

  Denver officials and the press grope for the best way to deal with bogus anthrax scares.

  October 25, 2001

• Animal House lover Mike Littwin declares "It's not over!" for the Rocky Mountain News

  One of the few things worth laughing about among reporters and editors following yesterday's announcement that E.W. Scripps has put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale was columnist Mike Littwin's newsroom reenactment of a famous scene from Animal House -- John Belushi's "It's not over!" speech. ("Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!") The results probably looked something like the clip above, if Belushi had long hair and a shaggy mustache. -- Michael Roberts

  December 5, 2008

• Peers name Rocky Mountain News Sara Burnett as the paper's best reporter

  "Going Up," a sidebar to our main feature article about the for-sale sign hanging on the Rocky Mountain News, spotlighted five Rocky notables who the Denver Post should hire in the event of the tabloid's closure if it wants to lure its old rival's subscribers. But the roster is hardly a complete list of talented journalists at the paper who richly deserve to remain in the profession. Take Sara Burnett, whose colleagues just chose her as the Rocky's best reporter -- and she has indeed had an inc

  December 11, 2008

• Looking at and listening to staff attempts to save the Rocky Mountain News

  The staffers at the Rocky Mountain News may not be in power positions when it comes to saving the paper, which was recently put up for sale by its parent company, E.W. Scripps. (Read our coverage in the feature article "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down" and two sidebars, "Five Rocky Stars Who Could Be Going Up" and "Denver's JOA Makes for Muddy Reading.") But they're not simply sitting around, waiting for their superiors to decide their fate. Last night, a website called IWantMyRocky.com

  December 15, 2008

• Best Daily Columnist

  April 4, 2002

• The Message

  September 11, 2003

• Two members of Rocky Mountain News photo staff among those leaving paper

  In "Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple on the future of the paper: 'We Have No Idea'" -- a blog published on February 16 -- the aforementioned Temple mentioned that approximately half-a-dozen members of his staff had left the tabloid of late, with some landing newspaper jobs despite the horrific condition of the journalism industry as a whole. Yesterday, the names of two departing employees were confirmed in an e-mail to staffers from managing editor Deb Goeken -- and indeed, one of the pa

  February 19, 2009

• Best Daily Newspaper News Columnist

  March 25, 2004

• Denver Post to add Rocky Mountain News voices

  Photo by Anthony Camera.Kevin Vaughan, a Rocky reporter who'll soon be writing for the Denver Post. Almost two months ago, Michael Roberts offered an all-star list of five Rocky Mountain News staffers that he suggested the Denver Post hire should the News shut down.Now, with the News's last day tomorrow, the Post has announced that it's adding a handful of News employees, and three of them were on Roberts's list: columnist Mike Littwin, workhorse reporter Lynn Bartels, and sports writer Dave Kr

  February 26, 2009

• Anthony Bourdain at an altweekly?

  At a recent appearance in California, Anthony Bourdain revealed that the first article he ever wrote was supposed to appear in an alternative paper, the New York Press. According to the Santa Barbara Independent story: After finishing the op ed that would later inspire Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain remembered aloud how he sold his first piece to the New York Press. "Week after week after week I kept getting bumped," he recalled. "And in some moment of drunken hubris I called up [The Press] and

  March 4, 2009

• Ex-Rocky Mountain Newser Tracy Ringolsby carrying on -- after being stranded by Scripps

  Tracy Ringolsby. Lots of folks expected that Hall of Fame baseball writer Tracy Ringolsby would be among the former Rocky Mountain News journalists who'd find a new home at the Denver Post, including us. He was one of the five Rocky stars we thought might soon be moving from one floor of the Denver Newspaper Agency building to another. In the end, however, three of our picks -- Mike Littwin, Dave Krieger and Lynn Bartels -- got the nod, while Ringolsby was left on the sidelines along with ass-k

  March 5, 2009

• Don't expect this week's trial to resolve the Ward Churchill case

  Ward Churchill. Of the scads of sentences written about former University of Colorado-Boulder prof Ward Churchill over the past several years, the one that best sums up the story was penned by Mike Littwin in a May 2006 column back when he was still scribbling for the Rocky Mountain News. As Littwin put it, "Even a witch hunt can occasionally turn up a witch." Churchill's wrongful termination lawsuit against CU, which goes to trial today, pivots on some fascinating legal questions. The univers

  March 9, 2009

• Best Reaction to the Coors Light Twins

  March 24, 2005

• Former Rocky Mountain News reporter Gargi Chakrabarty leaving Denver Post

  Gargi Chakrabarty, left, at a DU awards ceremony last year. When the Rocky Mountain News went down for the count in February, the Denver Post brought aboard a slew of the tabloid's brand names: Mike Littwin, Dave Krieger, Lynn Bartels, Kevin Vaughan, etc. In addition, the paper also reached out to a onetime Rocky reporter who had not yet become a household name: Gargi Chakrabarty. But local journalists weren't surprised that she was singled out. In her nearly six years as a reporter at the Rock

  May 29, 2009

• After the Rocky taps out, the Post acts like it won by a knockout

  March 5, 2009

• From the week of January 8

  January 8, 2009

• The Rocky Mountain News is going down

  December 11, 2008

• Five Rocky stars who could be going up

  December 11, 2008

• Shrinkage

  Is the new, smaller Rocky more "convenient" than ever, or a sign of an impending newspaper apocalypse?

  February 1, 2007

• Up Front

  Everything you need to know about Denver's dailies is on page one.

  May 25, 2006

• Storytime

  The dailies are looking for characters.

  January 12, 2006

• Students' Counsel

  The next generation takes a pop quiz on the media.

  November 10, 2005

• The Message

  Death Wish

  March 31, 2005

• The Message

  David vs. Goliath

  June 24, 2004

• The Message

  Nip/Tuck

  April 22, 2004

• The Message

  Slammed!

  July 24, 2003

• The Flag-Bearer

  Tom Tancredo is on a crusade to save America -- and he's looking for recruits.

  July 3, 2003

• The Message

  The media's massive buildup to battle makes war seem almost anti-climactic.

  March 20, 2003

• The Message

  News directors debate what is, and isn't, breaking news.

  March 6, 2003

• Calling All Columnists

  A writer's departure from the Post raises questions about the paper's commitment to metro columns.

  December 12, 2002

• Let's Get Together

  The Denver Post and Channel 9 work to turn their media partnership into a beautiful marriage.

  October 31, 2002

• What's Left?

  The Post denies accusations of slanted coverage.

  October 3, 2002

• Distant Replay

  Expect the anniversary of 9/11 to bring out the media's worst.

  September 5, 2002

• Tilting at Windmills

  What did the anti-JOA lawsuit produce? A couple of laughs.

  April 19, 2001

• What We've Lost

  Are two weekend newspapers really better than four? You do the math.

  April 12, 2001

• Abandoning Ship

  The News wants to discourage its stars from sailing to the Post.

  February 1, 2001

• Two of a Kind

  You can tell the difference between the Post and the News -- but you've got to look awfully close.

  September 21, 2000

• Fox on the Run

  During its first week on the air, Channel 31's news demonstrates a little substance and a lot of style.

  July 27, 2000

• Ball Carriers

  Is a Post reporter offsides when it comes to the people he covers?

  September 16, 1999

• Do Bennet and Udall heart the NRA?

  Is that a gun in your pocket? When Michael Bennet was just a baby/his mama told him, son/always be a good boy/don't ever play with guns. But that (weird, re-imagined-by-me Johnny Cash lyric) didn't stop him from voting for them. Now he and fellow Sen. Mark Udall are in trouble -- at least with the press -- for playing politics and caving in to the NRA. As reported yesterday by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, Udall and Bennet were apparently among a number of Democrats who voted for an

  July 24, 2009

• Scott McInnis is getting picked on by even more mean people

  Scott McInnis with Josh Penry, whose candidacy is looking pretty good right now.​Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis came uncorked while defending his allegedly broken pledge to use leftover 2004 campaign funds for breast-cancer research during a Wednesday appearance on the KHOW talk show hosted by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. At one point, McInnis even accused Caplis of ganging up on him -- as if Dandy Dan, who's a little to the right of Cardinal Richelieu, has a well-know

  August 14, 2009

• Do birthers have a friend in Cory Gardner?

  Cory Gardner.​Cory Gardner, who's running for Congress in Colorado's 4th District, is under liberal attack for playing coy when asked at a town hall this week if he thinks President Barack Obama was born in the United States. As Colorado Pols points out this morning, his subsequent response to the Denver Post's Michael Riley about his refusal to reject nutty birther claims out of hand makes absolutely no sense: He says the comments originally reported by the Fort Collins Coloradoan were ta

  August 21, 2009

• Vandalism at the Colorado Democratic Party HQ: The story gets even dumber

  A Colorado Democratic Party photo of damage at its Santa Fe headquarters.​"Is Alleged Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters Window-Smasher Maurice Schwenkler a LIBERAL Activist?," a Jared Jacang Maher blog published yesterday, pinpointed some contradictions in a story that was originally framed as an example of anti-healthcare-reform loonies on a spree. Schwenkler, it seems, had received payment last November for election work on behalf of a progressive 527 group whose donors included sup

  August 26, 2009

• Channel 7 reporting Zazi to admit Al-Qaeda ties

  Zazi as seen on Channel 7.​According to Channel 7, Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin won't suffer another sleepless night worrying that federal-investigation subject Najibullah Zazi might have no involvement whatsoever in activities related to terrorism. Moments ago, the station posted a story asserting that Zazi "has admitted he has ties to al-Qaeda and is in negotiations to plead guilty to a terror charge." Channel 31 followed with a similar account shortly thereafter, while KOA, the Po

  September 18, 2009