The Rocky Mountain News published its last issue last week. RIP.
Until now, the loss of so many of the nation’s newspapers due to the lousy economy and technological changes seemed to be something that happened to other people in far away places.
This past Thursday, it got personal. On that day, E.W. Scripps Co. officials announced that the Rocky Mountain News would publish its last edition on Friday, Feb. 27. No buyer had come forth to purchase the Denver newspaper, which had been put up for sale in December. With that, Colorado’s oldest newspaper — a couple of months shy of its 150th anniversary — was shut down, idling 230 employees.
–Loss of Rocky Mountain News is heartbreaking, Deseret News, March 3