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Photos: Spider-Man and Hulk (and the Denver Post) battle Dr. Doom in the "Colorado Caper"

The weird shit you find in your attic.... During a recent spelunking mission, I came across an amazing artifact from the '80s: "The Colorado Caper," a full-length Marvel comic starring Spider-Man and the Hulk in an exciting advertorial for the Denver Post and the now-defunct May D&F department stor ... More >>

Penny Parker, other Rocky Mountain News survivors: What did they do after love was gone?

It's been four years since the Rocky Mountain News closed just shy of its 150th birthday. What's happened to folks at the paper since then, and where are they now? That's the subject of "After the Love Is Gone -- Following the Rocky Road," a discussion today featuring the likes of longtime columnist ... More >>

Denver Post's decision to sell stake in Colorado Rockies not sign of financial turmoil, CEO says

Last week, the Denver Post announced a desire to sell its 7.3 percent stake in the Colorado Rockies -- an asset acquired due to the Rocky Mountain News's 2009 closure. A knowledgeable source tells Westword this move was motivated by dire financial problems at the Post -- ones serious enough that the ... More >>

Meet the 2012 Denver #WebAwards finalists

It's time for the 2012 edition of Westword's Denver Web Awards, our annual celebration of Denver's greatest digital minds. Back at the end of September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects and voices, and a team of Westword staffers and contributors has ... More >>

Nuggets' season debut v. 76ers was a Halloween horror show

Denver blog posts make the most of what they've got. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein on the terrible performance by the new-look Nuggets in a loss to Philadelphia. Weren't those big contracts for Ty Lawson and JaVale McGee supposed to be inspiring? Free Range Longmont's Kaye Fissinger on the Denve ... More >>

Kevin Vaughan, Denver Post city editor, leaving to join nonprofit I-News

Despite reassurances, questions continue to be raised about the financial health of the Denver Post following the bankruptcy of the Journal Register Company, sister firm of MediaNews Group, the Post's owner. But Post city editor Kevin Vaughan insists that sinking-ship fears had nothing to do with hi ... More >>

Howard Saltz, Denver Post business alum: Millions in debt

Howard Saltz was once among the most powerful figures at the Denver Post, serving as deputy business editor, deputy managing editor and DenverPost.com editor before becoming a veep at MediaNews Group, its parent company. More recently, he's been named editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. But th ... More >>

Photo: Denver Post copy editor goodbye cake spells journalism changes

The photo above -- featuring a cake served at a goodbye party for copy editors leaving the paper -- shows that the folks still employed at the Denver Post haven't lost their sense of humor. However, they have lost their copy desk, in a change whose full impact can't be fully calculated yet.

Peyton Manning's neck not as susceptible to re-injury as fans fear?

Denver blog posts bleed orange. Broncos Report defies the conventional wisdom that Peyton Manning is one hit away from a career-ending neck re-injury. Colorado Ed News: Jessica Keigan feels teachers must lead policy. Square State's Zappatero on criticism of Mike Rosen's Denver Post birther column ... More >>

Post: Rehire Mike Littwin or Penny Parker or be columnist-free 'til 2013?

Earlier this week, we interviewed the Denver Post's sole current metro columnist, Tina Griego, who's accepted a severance deal originally designed to reduce the paper's copy-editing staff by two-thirds and will soon be moving with her family to Virginia. Her replacement? Our interpretation of the gu ... More >>

Denver Post layoffs estimate: 16 copy editors, nearly tenth of staff

Update: At this point, neither representatives of the Denver Post nor the folks at the Denver Newspaper Guild seem eager to talk in detail about a plan to lay off two-thirds of the copy editors at the paper of record. However, we've gotten more information about the likely fallout. In the end, as ma ... More >>

Reader: Denver Post changes are like Exxon watering down gas

Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here's a comment from a reader who thinks s ... More >>

Denver Post to lay off two-thirds of its copy editors?

Within the past several months, the Denver Post has made buyout deals with nineteen staffers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe, and laid off popular columnists Mike Littwin and Penny Parker, among others. But the cuts aren't over. In an internal memo on view below, editor Greg ... More >>

Lisa Kennedy to split film and theater critic duties at Denver Post

Newspapers across the country have slashed staff to save money, with movie reviewer and theater critic positions among the most popular cuts. Given that reality, the Denver Post deserves credit for continuing to dedicate a staff writer to these subjects, even though one person -- Lisa Kennedy -- wil ... More >>

Mike Littwin's layoff at the Denver Post: What's it mean for editorial page balance?

Denver blog posts welcome your scrutiny. Big Media's Jason Salzman worries the Denver Post's editorial page will be less balanced with the departure of columnist Mike Littwin. The Redheaded Slut shares her struggles after a relationship split. Denver Frank: What would Earth look like with rings l ... More >>

Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning: Could they coexist on the Broncos?

Denver blog posts play hurt, like all the great ones. Bronco Talk's Jon Heath shares the argument of the Broncos' Tony Hills, who thinks Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning could coexist on the same squad. Colorado Pols accuses the Denver Post of sanitizing a GOP rally. Denver Stiffs' Colin Neilson on t ... More >>

The case of the kidnapped coed

How the Denver Post and Perry Mason ruined a Colorado murder case

Tim Tebow, Broncos capable of beating Rex Ryan, New York Jets by boring them to death?

Tim Tebow.​Denver blog posts make great holiday gifts. Predominantly Orange's Kim Constantinesco writes that the Jets fear the Broncos' one-dimensional offense. Is there power in dullness? Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard notes that Jared Polis leads the state's delegation in net worth. ... More >>

Reader: Print is dead, and someone should tell the Denver Post

Greg Moore.​Our item about the elimination of a stand-alone Travel section in the Denver Post's Sunday paper speaks to the continuing challenges facing traditional media organs. This development sparked one reader to wonder why the Post hasn't gone entirely digital.

Denver Post: If 15-20 newsroom staffers don't take buyout, layoffs could follow

Yesterday afternoon, editorial employees at the Denver Post gathered for an all-newsroom meeting -- the sort at which good news is seldom shared. And as expected, the imparted information was grim. Staffers were told that if at least fifteen-to-twenty of them -- up to 10 percent of the staff -- don ... More >>

City Spirit Picnic flier is the best flier ever created by a city worker's 6-year-old kid

Is that Balloon Boy?​One could argue that e-mail, Evite and Facebook have killed the art of hand-crafting kick-ass posters to advertise your housewarming party or backyard barbecue. But if that's true, nobody bothered to tell the city of Denver -- which has gone on tempting the children of cit ... More >>

Denver Post comic cut-ups save money, double the funny: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Instead of cutting entire comic strips and losing more readers the Denver Post could save space (and money) by splicing together different strips to create comic cut-ups that are immensely more funny...

Denver Daily News shuts down: "Just doesn't look like we can sustain," publisher says

​Update: Denver Daily News publisher Kristie Hannon has been swamped with messages since word broke that the paper will cease publication just over ten years after its debut. However, she took the time to take part in a detailed Q&A about the decision.

Top 10 Colorado license plates worth paying for

​Today's Denver Post reports on a proposal to let Colorado drivers bid for the most sought-after vanity plates. But which ones would bring in the most dough? We've got some ideas about that. Here's our top ten.

Hair today, gone tomorrow: Karen Leigh gets the Kenny Be treatment

​Everyone loves Kathy Sabine, including Noah Van Sciver, the cartoonist who drew the art for our Best of Denver 2011 People & Places section. This is his illustration of Sabine for the readers' choice winner of Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Female. (Sabine was also the readers' choice for B ... More >>

Rocky Mountain Right website goes on hiatus due to fear of being sued by Denver Post

RMR logo.​Visitors to Rocky Mountain Right's website can usually find conservative news and commentary -- but not right now. The home page is currently emblazoned with the phrase "Access Denied." That's because site overseer Antony Surace has temporarily blocked users to the page due to concer ... More >>

Denver Post parent MediaNews Group puts Mike Rosen column at center of copyright suit

Dean Singleton.​Last month, we noted that Denver Post and MediaNews Group execs weren't eager to discuss a copyright-infringement warning published by the paper. At the time, we asked these three questions: "So... what prompted the Post to rattle this saber? Are lawsuits imminent? And against ... More >>

Denver Post, MediaNews Group executives not eager to talk about copyright-violations warning

Dean Singleton.​On Sunday, the Denver Post published "Notice to Readers About Denver Post Copyright Protections" -- although readers weren't really the target audience. The piece is actually a bellicose warning to content thieves who reproduce Post stories or photos without permission. So... w ... More >>

Denver Post online circulation figures better than print, but hookup with The Onion is no joke

Dean Singleton.​Update:As of yesterday afternoon, the Denver Post hadn't published an article about its latest circulation report -- for space reasons, perhaps? However, such a piece appears in today's print edition -- and it's less spin-happy than usual, straight-forwardly conceding that sale ... More >>

Scott McInnis: Denver Post rushed to judgment, says writer in second plagiarism claim

Greg Moore.​Denver Post editor Greg Moore defends a story about an alleged second example of plagiarism by Scott McInnis, as well as the decision to deal with questions about it in an article that began with repudiations of McInnis by Rolly Fischer, the candidate's designated fall guy. But a w ... More >>

Video Professor getting ready to flunk out?

Video Professor John Scherer​Michael Roberts profiled John Scherer, the self-proclaimed Video Professor whose computer-education company was one of Colorado's most unlikely success stories, four years ago -- but in the time since, the prof has been racking up some failing grades, and plenty of ... More >>

Dress for Success

Denver Post circulation press release and article: Can you tell the difference?

"Told you so."​The Denver Post isn't exactly known for writing about itself in hard-hitting fashion: Note its coverage of the bankruptcy filing by parent firm MediaNews Group's holding company, which attempted to bury the word "bankruptcy." As such, it's not especially surprising that the sam ... More >>

Moving Pictures: Flobots perform song from new album at Mayor's Awards

We weren't on hand to witness this, but apparently Jonny 5 and his Flobots kin received the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts on Wednesday at the Westin Tabor Center, and played a song from the new record, Survival Story, called "Good Soldier." Luckily, Denver Post scribe John Moore brought a ... More >>

The former Broomfield Events Center to be renamed. Again.

More breaking news from the AEG Live camp. The Denver Post is reporting that Odeum Colorado, the venue formerly known as the Broomfield Event Center, will be renamed again this March, just in time for the venue's grand opening. Denver Post Those who bristle at the mere notion of corporate branding ... More >>

"Reductions in staff" at Denver Post subsidiary Metro Mountain Media

Some of the publications that have been put out by Metro Mountain Media.​MediaNews Group, the Dean Singleton-led company that owns the Denver Post and dozens of other newspapers around the country, recently announced that its holding company, Affiliated Media, would seek bankruptcy protection ... More >>

Post-News joint operating agreement ends not with a bang, but with a press release

Dean Singleton.​The death of the joint-operating agreement that was supposed to sustain a business partnership between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News for a half-century but didn't survive for even one decade can't help seeming anticlimactic. After all, the Rocky's been gone for si ... More >>

The Denver Post's desperation to keep me as a subscriber

Today's Denver Post, which hit my driveway well in advance of 5:30 a.m.​Back in March, I wrote about getting a card from the Denver Post letting me know that my annual subscription price following the demise of the Rocky Mountain News would be $133.95 -- not exactly a bargain, but far less tha ... More >>

Denver Post puts right Rockies story up front

The John Leyba photo of Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba that accompanied today's front-page story in the Denver Post. This morning's Denver Post features a Colorado Rockies story on page one -- but it's not about the team's eleventh straight victory, which tied a franchise record. Rather, it conce ... More >>

The online emphasis of the Denver Post's storm coverage

A John Lebya photo of storm damage in Aurora from a Denver Post slideshow. Over the past decade, daily newspapers have grappled with the best way to cover breaking news items in print -- a medium that arrives at homes well after most subscribers already know about what took place. The five tornadoe ... More >>

Is that gourd goodness in your pocket? Or...

Step 1: Place mind in gutter. Step 2: Look at the cover of today's "Grow" section in the Denver Post. Step 3: Giggle. Step 4: Wonder why there's a third round object at the base of the tallest gourd. Overcompensation?

Today's featured event: Author Mark Obmascik's got his eyes on the sky again

Mark Obmascik. Back in 2002, Mark Obmascik, part of the Denver Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, took a year off in order to write a book about, of all things, bird-watching -- and the slower pace agreed with him. "In journalism, we do ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Boogity, boogity, boogity, will Colorado go racing?

A Flickr photo. We cruise the blogosphere so you don't have to. Send tips. NASCAR could be coming to Aurora. Yay? (5280) Pictures of an ice shelf breaking up: Who knew I gave a shit? (DenverPost.com's "Captured") Quick! Jump on the Nuggets bandwagon before it fills up! (Denver Stiffs, Pickaxe an ... More >>

Denver Post, KUNC lead the prize patrol

Photo by Andy CrossA photo from the Denver Post's award-winning series "The Battle Within." Two local news organizations have added baubles to their trophy cases in recent days. The Society of Professional Journalists bestowed its top investigative plaudit upon the Denver Post series "The Battle Wi ... More >>

Best Makeover

Denver Post redesign

Off Limits

Whither Whizzer

Top Ten

The Sunday Denver Post is one of America's most widely circulated newspapers. Does it deserve to be?

Best Memo

Written by Larry Burrough
Denver Post

Strange but True

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