This is going to be a grim day for the history books in Denver.
The Rocky Mountain News will publish its last edition a few months shy of its 150th birthday.
Here's a Poynter.org post.
Robert Niles, editor of Online Journalism Review and a former RMN staffer, tweeted that he will have a post up in the a.m.
(The E.W. Scripps Co.) said The Rocky, as it is known, lost $16 million in 2008, and no buyer had emerged in the almost three months since the company publicly acknowledged that it wanted to sell the paper. The close comes as a blow to employees and readers, but not a surprise. Scripps executives have said that if they could not find a buyer, they might close the tabloid.
Rich Boehne, chief executive of Scripps, traveled to Denver to break the news to the staff in the paper’s newsroom. According to The Rocky’s own account of that gathering, some of the employees cried. The workers were told that they would remain on the Scripps payroll through April 28.
Mr. Boehne said that just one potential buyer expressed interest in the paper, before realizing that the economic challenges it faced were overwhelming.