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November 2, 2007"Expanded fruiting" instead of holiday party at the Rocky Mountain News this year
Plenty of companies have canceled their 2008 Christmas parties in the face of our current economic downturn, including the Rocky Mountain News. The paper usually has a bash at Maggiano's -- but not this time around, as Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple revealed in a recent internal e-mail. Instead, the tabloid will invite staffers to an "expanded fruiting" in association with its annual staff awards. What the hell does that mean? Read the e-mail after the jump and try to figure it out
November 24, 2008Rocky 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 and CEO of E.W. Scripps, the paper's parent company, is quoted as saying, "The decision to seek a buyer for the Rocky would have been unthinkable until very recently. But the operating conditions hav
December 4, 2008Wake-Up Call: A pressing engagement
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
December 5, 2008Today's depressing Rocky Mountain News memo: counseling assistance
Yesterday, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News received an e-mail from editor/publisher/president John Temple with an attached press release explaining why parent company E.W. Scripps had decided to put the paper on the block; read it in the blog "Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale." Today's follow-up e-mail is equally depressing, even though it's meant to help people upset by the previous development. Specifically, employees are urged to use Horizon Care coverage provided by the Rocky, since
December 5, 2008Denver Newspaper Agency's deadline day could get bloody
A week from tomorrow, January 16, is the day by which MediaNews Group chieftain Dean Singleton and execs at the Denver Newspaper Agency say they need to secure $18 million in labor savings prior to renegotiating $130 million in debt. "If that fails," says a letter penned by DNA senior human resources veep Missy Miller that's quoted in a January 5 Rocky Mountain News article, "the financial health of DNA will be even more significantly impacted than it has been to date, and the employer will ha
January 8, 2009Best Insult of the Rocky Mountain News in the Denver Post
March 29, 2001Best Development to Come Out of the News-Post Joint Operating Agreement
March 29, 2001Best Daily Columnist
April 4, 2002Best Evidence That Having Something to Live For Staves Off Death
April 4, 2002Best New Feature in a Denver Daily
April 4, 2002Off Limits
April 25, 2002Letters to the Editor
August 15, 2002Best Addition to the Rocky Mountain News
March 27, 2003Best Correction in the Rocky Mountain News
March 27, 2003Friday'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, will be closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful, the E.W. Scripps Co. announced today. "Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times
February 26, 2009Letters to the Editor
January 27, 2005Country Fun
Have a bucking good time at this charity event.
January 15, 2009Strange but True
January 1, 1998The Name Game
The "Denver" is gone from the Rocky Mountain News. What's next?
January 25, 2001Inside the Temple
The Rocky's leader believes his paper is a survivor.
August 1, 2002Journey's End
The media outlets that helped Ocean Journey float aren't mentioning their roles now that it's sinking.
March 28, 2002Winning Ways
May 21, 1998Off Limits
April 23, 1998Off Limits
August 28, 1997Letters
April 17, 1997Big Bang Theory
December 26, 1996Off Limits
June 6, 1996Off Limits
May 9, 1996THE YEAR IN REVIEW
December 28, 1994LETTERS
July 13, 1994WESTWORD WINS
May 25, 1994Plat du Jour
April 30, 2009Are former Rocky Mountain News subscribers abandoning the Denver Post?
A coupon that attempts to lure Rocky Mountain News fans to sign up with the Denver Post. The Denver Post has done some mighty fine work since it became the city's only major daily, as pointed out in today's blog about an impressive drunk-driving-stats package. But that doesn't mean every subscriber to the Rocky Mountain News, which closed in late February, is switching his loyalties to the surviving broadsheet. Indeed, new circulation digits argue to the contrary.
April 27, 2009Closing Rocky Mountain News hasn't solved problems at Scripps
Finances drove the decision by E.W. Scripps executives to shutter their largest newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, in late February. However, it's clear from data released this morning that removing the tabloid from its books didn't suddenly make everything better. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the firm reported a $220.7 million first-quarter loss due mainly to "$192 million of write-downs at its television business." While the outfit's newspaper revenue dipped 22 percent, money
May 4, 2009INDenver Times renegades plan Rocky Mountain Independent
David Milstead. Today's update about INDenver Times noted that many of the principals in the project, including former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead, had struck off on their own on April 23 after INDT signed up only 3,000 subscribers (its goal was 50,000). In a conversation at that time, Milstead revealed that he and folks such as INDT managing editor Steve Foster were interested in creating an online news product of their own -- and today, they've taken their first public
May 14, 2009John Temple: We didn't wish death upon Dean Singleton
John Temple. It didn't take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280's intriguing account of the Rocky's death -- that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid's owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton, who has multiple sclerosis, happened to die in a timely manner. In "Another Example of the Dangers of Using a Single Anonymous Source," an awkwardly headlined ite
May 28, 2009Rocky 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, other historical paraphernalia has been earmarked for preservation by the Colorado Historical Society. This material is separate from the Rocky's intellectual property: the name, its web address and s
June 8, 2009Westword wins five AAN awards, proves paying off judges still works*
Illustration by Craig Hoggatt. He didn't win anything, but he's got a killer beard.Michael Roberts' coverage of the Rocky's closure helped him nab an AAN award for media reporting. *Just kidding. Maybe. The degenerates at this humble (but glossy!) rag took home five awards at the recent Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual conference in Tuscon, where it was decided for the 14th straight year that, yes, being free and having ads for massages and pot lawyers is still totally the way t
June 29, 2009The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 16 edition
Photo by Lori Midson"Are you sure we're empowering ourselves by doing this?" This shortcut is a stripped-down version. Today in Cafe Society: • Jonesy's EatBar staff bears their cleavage for a good cause. • Tonight: Twenty bucks, twenty wines at the Table Mountain Inn. • Mulberries to pack up on South Pearl. • Westword.com's Map of the Bars. • Whoa! Big Hoss opening halted. Today in Backbeat Online: • Clutch, Airborne Toxic Event, Chickenfoot shows announced. • Mile Hi-Fidelity
July 16, 2009Wake-Up Call: Read all about it
It's been a bad year for newspapers, with cities acorss the country losing important institutions like the Rocky Mountain News. But it's been a very good year for homeless newspapers, judging from the entries in the first annual North American Street Newspaper Association Newspaper Awards. I was lucky enough to be one of the judges of that contest, which included work from twenty street newspapers across North America. Staffers from those papers are in Denver right now for an annual conf
July 31, 2009Wall Street Journal publishes John Temple's want ad
Photo by J. KnightJohn Temple at the February news conference announcing the impending closure of the Rocky Mountain News. This past Friday, the Wall Street Journal gave readers a look at "Confessions of an Organization Man," an op-ed penned by John Temple, former editor, publisher and president of the Rocky Mountain News. In it, Temple notes that after leaving the Rocky, he was excited by the opportunity to move forward in his career "outside the cocoon of a large company." But during t
August 3, 2009The Rocky Mountain News' zombiefied website
The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News print edition.In a post today, Allan D. Mutter, a nationally respected press critics who shares his views on a blog dubbed Reflections of a Newsosaur, takes notice of the Rocky Mountain News website -- which not many other folks have done lately, and for good reason. In the piece, headlined "How Long Should Dead Paper Linger on Web?," Mutter points out that the Rocky's site looks precisely as it did at the time of its closure. And while it regis
August 10, 2009E.W. Scripps still mum on sale of Rocky Mountain News intellectual property
The front page of the final Rocky Mountain News.A blog yesterday focused on complaints about the Rocky Mountain News website, which has been static since the paper's February shutdown. In that item, I mentioned that I'd contacted Tim King, spokesman for E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's longtime owner, asking for an update about the possible sale of the tabloid's intellectual property. His e-mail reply confirms the continuing availability of the name and web address, but that's about it. He wrote
August 11, 2009Colorado Press Association gives former Rocky Mountain News staffers one last shot at contest glory
Writers at the Denver Post had to figure they'd be walking away with the lion's share of honors at this year's Colorado Press Association awards. After all, the Rocky Mountain News, which tended to win more than its share of baubles in the large newspaper contest, regularly beating the Post and the Colorado Springs Gazette -- the only other competitor in the category -- closed up shop in February. But hold up. The CPA's Nancy Burkhart sent an e-mail to members in which she writes, "The Co
August 19, 2009Checking in on the Rocky Mountain Independent
Today marks seven weeks since the launch of the Rocky Mountain Independent, a news website peopled mainly by Rocky Mountain News veterans who'd previously been involved with INDenver Times, an ambitious attempt to create an online news service that fell far short of initial subscriber targets. Whether by choice or happenstance, RMI has kept a low profile since then, but it continues to produce new material on a regular basis. But because the site, like INDenver Times, also boasts a subscr
August 24, 2009Denver journos talk about saving the news
"Saving the News: Denver and the Future of Journalism," which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, takes place just over six months after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, and speakers include former Rocky editor, publisher and president John Temple and one of the tabloid's standout investigative reporters, Laura Frank. But Kim Humphreys, one of the get-together's organizers, and another ex-Rocky employee, emphasizes that "Saving the News
September 16, 2009Denver Blogs: The Nuggets lost to the Timberwolves? At home? Take that back, you lying bastard!
The Nuggets let Ryan Gomes go off. The shame...Local blog-finding just got a lot easier. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets' home loss to the Timberwolves last night "unacceptable." And a few other choicer words. Over at Lakewood Edge, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Kevin Flynn describes the traffic woes expected to result from FasTracks work on the Sheridan bridge. Colorado Pols accuses Josh Penry of trying to rewrite history regarding the decision to suspend his gub
November 30, 2009The best thing on Arby's menu? Chris "Birdman" Andersen cartoon glasses
There's something awesome at Arby's. And it's not the Arby-Q sandwich, believe it or not. It's a set of three collectible Chris "Birdman" Andersen cartoon glasses, which sell for $2.49 each if you don't order a $5.01 roast beef combo, and $1.89 if you do. The glasses are high-quality: They're tall and heavy, have a basketball-shaped imprint on the bottom and feature cool artwork by longtime Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist Drew Litton.
December 14, 2009
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