William Dean Singleton

Rocky Mountain News: Marking anniversary of its death four years ago today

Four years ago today, the Rocky Mountain News closed on the cusp of its 150th birthday. The changes in the Denver media scene since then have been profound. And while the Denver Post, the city's surviving paper, continues to exist, its present doesn't look much like the future that seemed in the off ... More >>

David Sirota's Dean Singleton take-down: Accurate or overstated?

Denver blog posts are ready for the week. Big Media's Jason Salzman thinks David Sirota's Harper's article about Dean Singleton (I'm quoted in it) is accurate in some respects, exaggerated in others. Plants & Animals Denver's Hana: Dog manners are for CHAMPS. The Ralphie Report's Jon Woods checks ... More >>

Peyton Manning throws the ball to Broncos receivers -- in public!

Denver blog posts work hard to satisfy your every desire. Mile High Report's John Bena on the media scrum on hand to witness Peyton Manning's first public practice as a Bronco. Big Media's Jason Salzman searches for liberal media bias in Denver Post head honcho Dean Singleton's introduction of Bar ... More >>

Dean Singleton's pay-wall experiments are doomed to failure, says ColoradoPols

​A blogosphere search generated these three Denver blog posts. The folks at ColoradoPols think pay-wall ideas Dean Singleton shared in a Westword interview are illogical. Mile High Mamas: How to lighten the burden of bed rest. How about a serving of Mile High Hockey's daily cupcakes? Just a ... 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 >>

Dean Singleton, Denver Post publisher, looking to help son Adam Singleton learn family biz

Dean Singleton.​Correction below: Is Dean Singleton, head of MediaNews Group and Denver Post publisher, looking for a successor, Kim Jong-Il style? Doubt it: Despite his continuing battle against multiple sclerosis, he seems energetic, active and fully in charge. But judging by a Thursday memo ... More >>

MediaNews bankruptcy, Dean Singleton and Denver Post spin

Dean Singleton doesn't like the B-word.​Here are some sample headlines from other publications around the nation about the latest development involving MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and dozens of other newspapers around the country: UPI: "U.S. Newspaper Group to File Bankruptcy." ... More >>

Post's soldier story made for the web

A Craig F. Walker photo of soldier Ian Fisher, segmented for use as a navigation tool on the Post's website.​ Unlike most Denver TV stations, the Denver Post leads its offerings today with a report inspired by 9-11. Blessedly, though, it's not another roundup of anecdotes from people recalling ... 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 >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 18 edition

Photo by Soren McCartyThe Conchords in flight. Did they play "Albi the Racist Dragon?" Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the weekend: Flight of the Conchords at Red Rocks. • Moving Pictures: the Sexy Convicts, Lyin' Bitch, the Get Down, Vitamins, the Swayback, Ian Cooke, Young Coyotes. • Over ... More >>

This just in: Newspaper lovers still exist

The conversation took place at Parker's Warhorse Inn. Covering the troubles in the newspaper industry can be mighty dispiriting: I sometimes feel like I spend my days writing the obituary for my own career. No wonder I felt such trepidation when accepting an invitation from the folks at the Douglas ... More >>

Former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead strikes back against the haters, including Dean Singleton

David Milstead. The Wednesday blog "Q&A with David Milstead About the Death of the Rocky Mountain News and the Future of the Denver Post" has prompted some extremely lively (and often nasty) commentary, much of it directed at the aforementioned Mr. Milstead, a former Rocky business writer I feel ha ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 6 edition

The Game. And now, without further ado... Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with the Game. • Little Fyodor celebrates a quarter-century of zaniness. • Lee Ball, RIP. • Next Astrophagus gig to feature Astrophagus playing, uh, its own songs? • Diamond Boiz crew ready to bust through. • The ... 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 >>

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 >>

Dean Singleton's giant balls

This morning, both Denver dailies feature articles spurred by a Denver Post memo sent out in response to "Scripps Says Post Violates JOA," a January 28 Rocky Mountain News report based on a leaked letter reportedly penned by two executives at E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's owner. The latter piece, by s ... More >>

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 >>

Denver 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 resour ... More >>

Dean Singleton to be honored with 2009 Community Cultural Enrichment Award

MediaNews Group vice chairman and chief executive officer/Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton faces the same kind of bleak economic outlook as any newspaper magnate, albeit with a number of intriguing twists -- among them the potential closure of the Rocky Mountain News, the Post's joint-operatin ... More >>

The Denver connections to today's groundbreaking Detroit newspaper announcement

Today, the Detroit News and the Detroit Free-Press announced that they will reduce home delivery of their products to three days a week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. It's a radical move that's got plenty of Denver connections and correlations. The Detroit papers are linked by a joint-operating ag ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News is going down

Denver's JOA makes for muddy reading

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 >>

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 >>

Dean Singleton's outsourcing ideas taken to their logical conclusion

This past weekend, the New York Times published "A Penny For My Thoughts? ," a Maureen Dowd column that focused on James Macpherson, publisher of the online publication Pasadena Now. To save money, Dowd writes, Macpherson sacked his staff of seven Pasadena-based staffers and replaced them with six ... More >>

DNC spokesperson and ex-Denver Post staffer Chris Lopez heads to Texas

Richard Nixon and Front-Page Denver Post Editorials

The Post Takes Opinions Above the Fold

For the first time since 2005, the Post's editorial board opines on the front page.

Bill Ritter Blasted in Page One Denver Post Editorial

More Messages: Tighten That Belt

More Messages: Barking and Biting

Radio Age

Are young listeners abandoning broadcast radio?

Dealing

The Post offers staffers money to leave.

The Message

Skin City

The Message

Choice Cut

The Message

Hard Ball

Letters to the Editor

From the week of November 27, 2003

The Message

Brave New World

The Message

Is Channel 9 successful because of its people or its system?

Best Addition to the Denver Post

Greg Moore

Green-Light Specials

If the FCC loosens its rules, will media giants go on a radio-and-TV shopping spree? Absolutely.

Moore Than Before

The Denver Post's new editor wants to help the paper realize its potential.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 30, 2002

Woody Goes Limp

Post columnist Woody Paige's big shtick shrinks in chilly Utah.

Hit Them With Your Best Shot

Dueling articles about police shootings spur plenty of newsroom fireworks.

Off Limits

No good deed goes unpunished.

The Name Game

The "Denver" is gone from the Rocky Mountain News. What's next?

Don't Bogart That Joint

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

All the News That Fits

What gets lost in the heat of Denver's newspaper battle.

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