As of now the Rocky is silent and Denver is a one-newspaper town.
Image of last front page
I used to work at a Scripps Paper. Their technology on the web was pretty good, they were more advanced than others. Course that wouldn't save them. The Rocky had a good reputation too, a handful of Pulitzers, and was in one of the few competitive territories left.
It's a sad day for print journalism. All those voices of good journalists, now silenced. 55 days before the paper's 150th year. Maybe some of the staffers will get get hired in an online-only outlet in Denver. Not much consolation for the families of all those employees.
It's also too bad that the Rocky wasn't the first metro daily to die recently, and it won't be the last.
Hopefully publishers of the remaining newspaper companies will see this as a memento mori, and be spurred into radical innovation and transformation.
We'll see.
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