Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - The Rocky Going the Way of the Dodo

			November 11, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

North and South Korean Navy Boats Clash at Sea

Victims and Survivors Honored at Fort Hood Memorial Service

A Disappointing Year With Obama

House Passes Health Care Bill

Kucinich: Why I Voted No

The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
By Amy Goodman

A Disappointing Year With Obama
By William Pfaff

Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam
By Gbemisola Olujobi

When a Time Bomb Is Ticking
By Eugene Robinson

And on the Eighth Day, God Created Aliens

Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems to Support Health Care Reform

Victims and Survivors Honored at Fort Hood Memorial Service

North and South Korean Navy Boats Clash at Sea

On Reflection, Pigs Are Smart

Obama, Netanyahu Meet in Private

‘Sesame Street’ Turns 40

‘Daily Show’: The Men Who Stare at Votes

Lieberman Jumps to Conclusions About Fort Hood Shooting

Goldman Sachs Becomes ‘SNL’ Punchline

Emma Thompson, Petition Tourist

Marion Barry Does Reality TV

Steve Fraser on the Crisis of Capitalism
By Steve Fraser

Ni Hao, Mickey Mouse: Disney Goes to Shanghai

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

The Rocky Going the Way of the Dodo

denverpost.com

Closing time: The Rocky will shut down just shy of its 150th birthday.

The death knell has been sounded for the Rocky Mountain News, E.W. Scripps’ Denver-area newspaper, which is scheduled to close after Friday’s edition is churned out, no doubt signaling more mayhem to come in the old media world.

The New York Times:

Changing readership habits and increasing competition from the Internet have hit the newspaper industry especially hard, cutting overall circulation sharply over the last decade. Those forces, and the severe economic downturn, have significantly eroded advertising, the primary revenue source for newspapers.

The Rocky has about 230 reporters, editors and other employees in its newsroom. It will close just two months short of its 150th anniversary.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: denver e.w. scripps internet journalism newspaper old media rocky mountain news the rocky

Related Entries

November 9, 2009 Rupert Murdoch vs. Google (and Reality)
November 5, 2009 Keep the Government Out of the News Business
October 31, 2009 Internet Reads From a New Script
October 27, 2009 Two Arrested for Alleged Plot on Danish Paper
October 23, 2009 End of an Era for Lebanon’s Free Press

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Gamer Says Microsoft Banned Her for Being Openly Gay

Next item: GOP Throwing Jindal Under the Bus?

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By woody, February 26 at 8:36 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

The papers which survive will be weak, regional, family-owned, advertizing outlets.

There will no longer be any incentive to do deep reporting.

Without competition, the Post—which is also owned by an anonymous but huge national chain, the “MediaNews GROUP” will shrink too, except in advertizing.

I’ll hate it if I seem to espouse conspiracies when I say, this couldn’t have worked out better for the elites and the oligarchs if they’d planned it….er, i mean…

Report this

By Chris, February 26 at 7:48 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

I don’t see newspapers being obliterated due to the digital age but I think there will be a lot less of them. I saw the news about the Philly Daily News and the Philly Inquirer filing for bankruptcy this week. What floored me about the Rocky Mountain News closing is that they were 150 yrs old—-older than the late Lehman Bros.

Report this

By Eric L. Prentis, February 26 at 7:21 pm #

The Rocky Mountain News did not change, adapt or survive, so sad.

Report this