In what is probably a harbinger for the rest of the journalism industry, Denver's Rocky Mountain News published it last edition today. The newspapers shut its doors after 150 years because its parent company, Scripps, couldn't sell off the newspaper, which lost out in its long running battle with the Denver Post as the top morning publication in the Mile High City.
You can see a PDF of the last front page and flip through each page here. Take the time to watch the video on the newspaper Web site. Read the columns by veteran reporters about their time at the newspaper. Peruse the photo galleries. Take a trip down memory lane with a history of their top news coverage. Each item is a eulogy, a mourning of the evolution of the news business, which is leaving behind a storied history as it downsizes its way toward rebirth. Or, at least, what I hope is rebirth. It's yet to be seen if any of my colleagues are members of a dying breed or pioneers on the precipice of the next news era.
Farewell, Rocky. I sure do hope you are the exception, not the rule.
1 comments:
Every time something happens to a Scripps paper a little piece of me dies.
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