Rocky Mountain News for sale

[El Supremo]

Source: The Rocky Mountain News

The E.W. Scripps Co. today announced that it is putting the Rocky Mountain News up for sale.

Cincinnati-based Scripps has owned the Rocky since 1926. The paper, founded in 1859, is Colorado’s oldest, as well as the state’s oldest continuously operated business. Since 2000, the Rocky has won four Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence.

In 2001, after one of America’s great newspaper wars, Scripps called a truce and entered into a joint operating agreement with MediaNews Group, owner of The Denver Post.

Under the JOA, the newsrooms remained independent and competitive, reporting directly to their respective owners. A third company, the Denver Newspaper Agency, handles business matters such as printing, advertising and delivery – for the two papers. The agency is owned 50-50 by Scripps and MediaNews and its profits are shared equally. Scripps is also selling its interest in the agency.

Read more: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/04/rocky-mountain-news-sale/

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I saw this coming. People don't read any newspapers anymore. let alone two in the same city.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

1. This is so sad

We just lost one of our two Madison, WI newspapers this year, too. Just happened to be the liberal one...

[donco6]

2. Actually, the News is the RW rag.

No tears shed here. I hate having to get it on Saturdays.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Content sucked, but I miss the printing format...

reading a paper that opens like a book is so much easier than the traditional form.

[hlthe2b]

5. True... and the name lends a bit of nostalgia, I must admit

[MarjorieG]

7. Tabloid format easier but disrespected. Hubby worked for RMN when the better one, he award-winning.

[hlthe2b]

4. Yup.... editorially, RMN is hard to take...

Always check facts with the Denver Post....

[classof56]

6. When I was growiing up in Denver, the RMN was also known as...

The Rocky Mountain Scandal Sheet. That being said, I read it on a regular basis. Anybody remember Pasquale Marranzano? Oh, I'll bet I screwed up that name, but he was always good for the latest updates on what was happening in the world of Denver's rich and famous--e.g., Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur.

Ah, the good old days in Colorful Colorado!

[mountainvue]

8. They lost me after the JOA. Their format sucks on weekends.

Their writers have benn abandoning ship for a while now.