It’s – 30 – for Rocky Mountain News
Today’s issue of the Rocky Mountain News will be its last according to its owner E.W. Scripps Co. The Rocky Mountain News has been in existence since 1859 but Scripps says the paper lost $16 million last year and, guess what, nobody wanted to buy it.
The paper is the first to actually shut down out of the many papers that have recently threatened to close and/or filed for bankruptcy, including the New Haven (Conn.) Register, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and of course our own Tucson Citizen.
‘Tis a sad day for journalism. I suspect the Rocky Mountain News is only the first domino to fall.
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February 27th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
2000 Pulitzer Prize winner Pete Chronis, formerly of the Denver Post, gave this quote the morning of 2-27-9, “It’s a death in the family.”
February 27th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Sadly,RMN isn’t the first to shut down.
On February 20, 2008, E. W. Scripps Company announced that the Albuquerque Tribune would close, effective February 23, 2008.The closure followed a seven-month effort by the company to sell the paper, which had declined in circulation from 42,000 in 1988 to about 10,000 in 2008.
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico declared the paper’s last day “Albuquerque Tribune Day” in his state, to “celebrate the Tribune’s long and proud history and its honorable service to the state.”
The Albuquerque Tribune was an afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as Magee’s Independent. It was published in the afternoon and evening Monday through Saturday.
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March 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
[...] will publish its final newsprint version and switch to a web-only format. Of course, we mentioned the demise of the Rocky Mountain News here a few weeks ago. Gannett announced over the weekend that the Tucson Citizen will publish its final issue on [...]