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Rich Boehne

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    December 4, 2008

    Rocky Mountain News put up for sale

    It's the sort of headline most media observers in this area have been anticipating for quite some time, but it's still a shock to see it in print: "Rocky Mountain News For Sale." The article, published moments ago on the Rocky's website, quotes from a press release in which Rich Boehne, president ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    The Rocky Mountain News' John Temple on the alleged closure meeting

    The current Westword includes a feature article about the Rocky Mountain News, which was recently put up for sale, as well as a sidebar about the marquee Rocky talent most likely to leap to the Denver Post in the event of a closure and a look into the mysteries of the joint-operating agreement tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne on his company's commitment to newspapers

    As is the case with all articles, plenty of interesting stuff gathered for Westword's December 11 feature about the dire circumstances facing the Rocky Mountain News and sidebars focusing on Rocky writers who the Denver Post should try to hire and the joint-operating agreement between the Rocky an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    See the video of the Rocky Mountain News for-sale announcement

    The opening section of Westword's main article about the plight of the Rocky Mountain News, mentions a video of the announcement in the tabloid's newsroom featuring E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne and John Temple, the Rocky's editor, publisher and president. Click above to witness this painful yet in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    The Westword.com blog shortcut, December 10 edition

    It's beginning to feel a lot like blog roundup time. Today in Backbeat Online: • Twelve things every Wu-Tang Clan fan should own. • Mile High Makeout: Dreaming of me. • An extremely entertaining Q&A with Ryan Hendrix of Colourmusic. • Rap Up: Whygee and Sunken State unite for a free EP. â ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Rocky Mountain News gets temporary reprieve

    Yesterday's blog headlined "The Latest From the Rocky Mountain News Grapevine About the Paper's Future" noted that the E.W. Scripps-owned tabloid had reported very little about its potential sale since December 24. That changed this morning with the publication of "Efforts to Sell Rocky Could Exte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Rocky Mountain News' John Temple deems KOA's alleged Scripps scoop "BS"

    When he arrived at his office yesterday, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple was greeted by an e-mail letting him know about a report from KOA radio claiming that executives from E.W. Scripps, the paper's owner, which put it up for sale last month, would be arriving in the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Leaked letter reveals deep problems at Denver Post, Denver Newspaper Agency

    The story about the possible sale of the Rocky Mountain News by its owner, E.W. Scripps, continues to evolve in unexpected and fascinating ways -- and many of the developments have come to our attention via the Rocky 's own reporting. Case in point: Today's article "Scripps says Post Violates JOA" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    The Denver Post's fiery response to charge that it violated JOA with the Rocky Mountain News

    "Leaked Letter Reveals Deep Problems at Denver Post, Denver Newspaper Agency," a More Messages blog published this morning, considers the content of "Scripps Says Post Violated JOA," a David Milstead-penned piece from today's Rocky Mountain News. The article's centerpiece is a letter purportedly w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    More cost-cutting measures at E.W. Scripps

    Rich Boehne of E.W. Scripps. As word broke about six major layoffs at the Denver Post, media observers were getting their first chance to digest a memo from Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, which owns the Rocky Mountain News. In the note, Boehne announces salary cuts for supervisors at Scripps pub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Could the Rocky Mountain News spend another month-plus in limbo?

    Anyone hoping for quick answers from an E.W. Scripps conference call held this morning (and noted previously in the blog "Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple on the Paper's Future: 'We Have No Idea'") wound up disappointed. As detailed in typically complete fashion by Rocky business scribe Davi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Rocky Mountain News' John Temple on whether or not this week will be "boxless"

    John Temple. At staff meetings he's held on Thursdays since the December announcement that the Rocky Mountain News had been put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, John Temple, the paper's editor, publisher and president, has frequently reassured his staff that a given week would be "boxless" - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Friday's Rocky Mountain News will be the last

    The Rocky reported its own demise on its Web site around noon today. It's official: Denver is a one-daily town. The Rocky Mountain News has announced that tomorrow's edition will be the last. From the Rocky's story: The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    At the Rocky Mountain News' headquarters as word of its impending closure breaks

    Photo by Michael Roberts.The Denver Newspaper Agency building, with the Denver Post's logo prominently displayed. Around noon today, the lobby of the Denver Newspaper Agency building was populated mainly by reporters and photographers from other news organizations, hoping to get some info on the bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Highlights from the goodbye-to-the-Rocky Mountain News press conference

    J. KnightE.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne addresses the media after announcing the Rocky would close after Friday's issue. Reporter Lynn Bartels's colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News warned her not to try exiting the Denver Newspaper Agency building through the main lobby. After all, the place was sw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Will advertising rates for the Denver Post be going up?

    Dean Singleton delivers. During yesterday's press conference announcing the closing of the Rocky Mountain News, MediaNews Group boss Dean Singleton, whose firm owns the Denver Post, declared that the ad rates at his publication are "way below" the national average, but "they'll just have to stay th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    John Temple turns down E.W. Scripps job offer

    Photo by J. Knight.John Temple at the February 26 press conference announcing the impending closure of the Rocky Mountain News. The months between the December announcement that the Rocky Mountain News had been put up for sale and word that it would be shutting down for good last week were filled w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Q&A with David Milstead about the death of the Rocky Mountain News and the future of the Denver Post

    David Milstead. The most dogged and enterprising journalist to write about the Rocky Mountain News' closure saga came from the Rocky's own newsroom. Business columnist and reporter David Milstead broke story after story. For example, he unearthed a confidential letter from executives at E.W. Scripp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Harry Whipple out as head of Denver Newspaper Agency

    Harry Whipple. The only surprise in yesterday afternoon's announcement that Harry Whipple would no longer be in charge of the Denver Newspaper Agency was the identity of his successor: former Denver Post publisher Gerald Grilly, who's coming out of retirement to take the gig. Indeed, the February 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Texas investor Brian Ferguson plans bid for Rocky Mountain News assets

    The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News. At the February 26 press conference announcing the imminent closing of the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced that the Rocky website and archives were for sale. Now, a credible bidder is stepping forward to announce his interest i ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

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

    The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News. At the February 26 press conference announcing the imminent closing of the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced that the Rocky website and archives were for sale. Now, a credible bidder is stepping forward to announce his interest i ... More >>

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    A fifty-cent Red Rocks fee will help Denver Mountain Parks

    The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News. At the February 26 press conference announcing the imminent closing of the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced that the Rocky website and archives were for sale. Now, a credible bidder is stepping forward to announce his interest i ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    The Rocky Mountain News is going down

    The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News. At the February 26 press conference announcing the imminent closing of the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced that the Rocky website and archives were for sale. Now, a credible bidder is stepping forward to announce his interest i ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    Denver's JOA makes for muddy reading

    The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News. At the February 26 press conference announcing the imminent closing of the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced that the Rocky website and archives were for sale. Now, a credible bidder is stepping forward to announce his interest i ... More >>

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Don't Bogart That Joint

    It's our turn to take a hit off the Post/News merger.

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Off Limits

    It's our turn to take a hit off the Post/News merger.

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    E.W. Scripps, former Rocky Mountain News employees finally reach severance agreement

    E.W. Scripps chairman Rich Boehne alongside his company's logo. According to Mel Pomponio, the Denver Newspaper Guild chair for the Rocky Mountain News, former staffers of the shuttered tabloid will no longer be employed by E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's owner, after today. It's fortunate, then, that a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Rocky Mountain News archives going to Denver Public Library

    E.W. Scripps, the former parent company of the Rocky Mountain News, has just issued a press release confirming information that's been circulating for a few weeks: the archives of the tabloid, which died just shy of its 150th birthday, will be preserved by the Denver Public Library. In addition, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Denver won't have John Temple to kick around anymore -- because he's moving to Hawaii

    That shirt looks kind of Hawaiian, doesn't it?​After the closure of the Rocky Mountain News last February, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne publicly promised a job to Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple -- but he turned it down to explore other opportunities. Since then, he's consulted a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Rocky Mountain News intellectual property sold -- but former owner E.W. Scripps isn't saying who bought it

    Photo by J. KnightScripps CEO Rich Boehne at the news conference announcing the final edition of the Rocky.​On February 26, the day before the first anniversary of the Rocky Mountain News' final edition, we published an item about the status of the paper's intellectual property -- most importa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    John Temple: Honolulu Civil Beat isn't like INDenver Times

    John Temple has gone Hawaiian.​After the Rocky Mountain News shut down in February 2009, Rich Boehne, CEO of the tabloid's owner, E.W. Scripps, promised Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple a job. But Temple turned it down to pursue other opportunities -- the largest of which turned o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Mark Contreras, newspaper division head when Rocky Mountain News closed, out at Scripps

    Mark Contreras.​At the February 2009 press conference announcing the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, Mark Contreras, the senior vice president/newspapers for E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's owner, mainly stayed out of the spotlight -- but many soon-to-be-unemployed staffers felt he played a big ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    7News, Azteca America sold: Scripps back in CO two years after Rocky Mountain News closure

    Rich Boehne.​In February 2009, E.W. Scripps shut down the Rocky Mountain News, seemingly ending its major participation in the Colorado media market. Now, however, Scripps is back thanks to the purchase of KMGH-Channel 7 and three Azteca America stations in the state, which went on the block i ... More >>

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