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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 >>

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E.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 owne ... More >>

The 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 ... More >>

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 >>

John 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 ... More >>

Latest MediaNews Group moneymaking scheme: printing newsletters in people's homes

Even as journalists debate about whether or not E.W. Scripps executives pinned their hopes for the Rocky Mountain News' survival on Denver Post owner Dean Singleton's death, MediaNews Group, Singleton's company, is moving ahead with an unusual effort to monetize its content. As detailed in "MediaN ... More >>

Closing 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 Jour ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The last physical Rocky is a little late

This morning at about 5:15 a.m., I walked to my driveway, eager to peruse the final physical edition of the Rocky Mountain News -- but although my delivery person generally drops my newspapers off prior to 5 a.m., it wasn't there. When I left home for the office at 6 a.m., it still hadn't shown up ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Denver Newspaper Agency, unions agree on cuts

The only surprise contained in "Newspaper Agency, Unions Reach Agreement on Wage, Benefit Cuts," a just-published Rocky Mountain News article about a deal between the Denver Newspaper Agency and assorted labor organizations regarding a new contract, is that the reductions weren't deeper. Early in ... More >>

The Denver Post's bulldog is dead

Photo courtesy of Flickr. In newspaper parlance, a bulldog is an early edition -- most commonly a version of the Sunday paper sold on Saturdays. Since time immemorial, the Denver Post has published such a product, but no more. Jim Nolan, spokesman for the Denver Newspaper Agency, confirms that the ... More >>

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 >>

Denver Post interviewing Rocky Mountain News personnel

Multiple inside sources say that the Denver Post has interviewed numerous Rocky Mountain News staffers with an eye toward bringing a handful of Rocky types aboard when and if the tabloid stops publishing. No names have been confirmed at this writing. This development is especially intriguing give ... More >>

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 >>

Wake-Up Call: a visit to the dinosaur museum

On Sunday, I stopped by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the new, 250,000 square foot facility on Pennyslvania Avenue devoted to the history of news. The views from this building are stunning, as are many of the exhibits. But in many ways, I might as well have been at a natural history museum, loo ... More >>

Rocky Mountain News' John Temple expects something related to the sale of the paper to happen soon

If any press observer thought the fate of the Rocky Mountain News, which was put up for sale by E.W. Scripps almost two months ago, would remain unresolved in early February, he must have kept his opinions to himself. "I think people felt the way you did," confirms John Temple, the tabloid's edito ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News throws one heck of a migil

Cute kids make good migil photos.The mood at last night's Rocky Mountain News candlelight migil (half march, half vigil --- so coined, in the tradition of the Martin Luther King Day Marade, by someone cleverer than me) was light. Although the details of the event hinted at the possibility of theatri ... More >>

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 >>

Rocky Mountain News scribes get self-reflective

Business writer David Milstead and sports columnist Dave Krieger (pictured) are two of the genuine standouts on the Rocky Mountain News staff -- and in the past day or so, both have penned articles that consider the plight of their paper, which was put up for sale by parent company E.W. Scripps la ... More >>

Denver Newspaper Guild not sharing details about reopened contract talks with the Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency

The title of a certain December 15 blog -- "Denver Newspaper Guild Almost Mum on Renegotiating Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency Contract" -- pretty much foreshadows the DNG's lack of eagerness to discuss its recent decision to open pacts with the Post and the DNA early at the request of Dea ... More >>

Rocky Mountain News union rep on contract talks, coverage of sale offer

Today, the Rocky Mountain News reported that various unions had agreed to open contract talks for the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency early, as had been requested by Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, which owns the Post and is linked to the Rocky by a joint-operating agreement. Include ... More >>

Delay in Rocky Mountain News bonus: coincidence or conspiracy?

Yesterday, numerous Rocky Mountain News employees received a memo letting them know that a bonus they were supposed to receive today had been delayed and would now be included in their January 30 paychecks. In all likelihood, this was a simple processing glitch of the sort that happens routinely a ... More >>

Another newspaper joint-operating agreement teeters on the brink

Will 2009 go down in journalism history as the year when every two-newspaper town turned into a one-newspaper town? Events seem to be pointing in that direction. The Associated Press is reporting that Hearst Newspapers has put a for-sale sign on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, another publication ... More >>

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 ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News is going down

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 >>

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 >>

Rocky Mountain News doesn't downplay for-sale story

There was plenty of incentive for the Rocky Mountain News to soft-pedal the decision of its parent company, E.W. Scripps, to put the tabloid up for sale on the cusp of its 150th anniversary. But to the paper's credit, editors put the story front and center. As seen here, the cover shot features Jo ... More >>

Today'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 foll ... More >>

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 >>

Early reaction to news that the Rocky Mountain News has been put up for sale

In the hours since the development spotlighted in today's blog "Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale" first broke, I've had the chance to speak with numerous staffers at the paper. The majority chose to talk on background, and with only a couple of exceptions, they had similar reactions to the pres ... More >>

The Boulder Daily Camera's building goes on the block

Rocky Mountain News' David Milstead Predicts One-Newspaper Town

E.W. Scripps Stock in Freefall

Wall Street Journal Beats Denver, Boulder Papers on Conservative Profs Story -- But Not Longmont Times-Call

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John Temple on Why The Rocky Mountain News Won’t Go the Way of the Albuquerque Tribune

The Rocky Mountain News' Parent Company Looks to Sell Another Newspaper

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