For those who haven't heard, today the Rocky Mountain News published it's final edition, 55 days short of it's 150th anniversary. If you have twenty minutes to spare, watch this video documenting the last month of life of this great paper from the announcement that Scripps was going to spend a month trying to find a buyer through yesterday:
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009.
Somehow, someway someone needs to come up with a business model that keeps these great papers in business. The loss of local coverage is horrendus every time one of these papers shutters. Best wishes to the staff of the Rocky. We all hope you'll land on your feet.
Comments welcome,
Pat McGovern
It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.
