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29-634: The Colorado Tribune , also known as Daily and Weekly Colorado Tribune, was a newspaper published in Denver, Colorado from 15 May 1867 to 19 January 1871. It was the successor to the Denver Daily, published from 5 February to 14 May 1867, and it was succeeded by the Denver Daily Tribune, which continued through a series of name changes, eventually becoming the Denver Republican, which merged in 1913 with

58-520: A cane, severely injuring the editor. The News continued its crusade to rid Denver of its most celebrated bad man, which took nearly a decade to complete. The E. W. Scripps Company bought the Rocky Mountain News in 1926. The Rocky Mountain News and its competitors, including The Denver Post , resorted to gasoline giveaways and other promotions in an attempt to boost circulation. By the early 1940s,

87-538: A daily newspaper in August 1860, and from an evening to a morning newspaper in July 1870. In 1883, the newspaper took a stand against corruption and crime in Denver. One of its primary targets was city crime boss Jefferson Randolph Smith, alias "Soapy" Smith . In one crime-fighting campaign, the managing editor, John Arkins, allowed disrespectful comments about Smith's wife and children to be published and Smith assaulted Arkins with

116-524: A one-newspaper town, with The Denver Post as the sole remaining large-circulation daily. The Rocky Mountain News was founded by William N. Byers and John L. Dailey along with Dr. George Monell and Thomas Gibson on April 23, 1859, when present-day Denver was part of the Kansas Territory and before the city of Denver had been incorporated. It became Colorado's oldest newspaper and possibly its longest continuously operated business. Its first issue

145-476: A robustly staffed on-line alternative newspaper could succeed and were looking for new backers. INDenver Times , still on-line as of April 2018 , does not use the subscription model, instead depending on advertising for its revenue. As of October 2013 , the three co-founders Kevin Prebuld, Brad Gray, and Ben Ray, editor Steve Haigh, and contributors Drew Litton and Ed Stein were the only remaining staff from

174-473: The Chattanooga News-Free Press ' s joint operating agreement became the first to be terminated on August 27, 1966. The Newspaper Preservation Act was touted as a relief measure to allow multiple newspapers competing in the same market to cut costs, thus ensuring that no one paper could have supremacy in the market by driving the other(s) out of business. However, mounting evidence suggests

203-601: The Colorado Press Association 's General Excellence Award, the award for the best large daily newspaper in Colorado (for the eighth year in a row). The photo and design staffs won 25 Society for News Design awards, placed eighth in the world, and won nine National Press Photographers Association awards and six Pictures of the Year International awards. In 2006, Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News won

232-462: The News on the market, with industry analysts saying the move was possibly a prelude to shuttering the paper. Although Brian Ferguson, a private equity investor from Texas, contacted Scripps to express interest, that deal fell-through for reasons that included complications of the joint operating agreement. On February 26, 2009, Scripps announced that the Rocky Mountain News would print its final edition

261-530: The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his "Final Salute" special report, the story of a Marine major assigned to casualty notification and how he helps families with fallen relatives in Iraq cope with their losses. Todd Heisler won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography the same year for his photos in the same special report. Joint operating agreement In practice two daily newspapers published in

290-506: The Rocky had nearly died. It was saved by then editor Jack Foster when he convinced Scripps to approve changing the newspaper from a broadsheet format to a tabloid design. Foster reasoned that the new format would make it easier for readers to hold and navigate and would make advertising more affordable. Foster's wife, Frances, introduced America's first "advice" column , called Molly Mayfield. It became an instant favorite among readers and

319-459: The Rocky Mountain News or KMGH-TV had the company never shuttered the paper. On March 16, 2009, several former Rocky Mountain News staffers announced a plan to develop a new on-line, real-time local newspaper, with a staff of about 30 journalists. The plan required 50,000 subscriber pledges before April 23, 2009; if that goal was met, the full website, with the name INDenver Times , would launch on May 4, 2009. On April 23, 2009, INDenver Times ,

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348-751: The Rocky Mountain News . An 1868 advertisement claimed the Daily Colorado Tribune was "the largest daily newspaper published between the Missouri River and California." This article about a Colorado newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News (nicknamed the Rocky ) was a daily newspaper published in Denver , Colorado, from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It

377-482: The act (as had his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson ) as being antithetical to the essential practices and character of free market capitalism . He reversed himself upon receiving a letter from Richard E. Berlin, CEO of the Hearst chain of newspapers and magazines. In the 1969 letter, Berlin intimated that failure of the law to pass would carry political consequences and hinted that support from Nixon would conversely help

406-492: The closure of the Rocky . Two years after the shutdown of the Rocky Mountain News , Scripps would re-enter the Denver market when it purchased the broadcasting assets of McGraw Hill , which included ABC affiliate KMGH-TV . At the time, the Federal Communications Commission prohibited cross-ownership of newspapers and TV stations in the same market, meaning Scripps would have either been forced to sell

435-475: The feasibility of a relaunch. The intellectual property was purchased by Clarity Media Group, Anschutz's newspaper holding company, and the web site posts links to articles from Denver television media. Anschutz launched a Denver edition of the Colorado Springs Gazette in 2020, which publishes material from the Rocky Mountain News archives daily. In 2000, the Rocky Mountain News photo staff

464-408: The first three months, at $ 24. The 12 owners of the website committed to working for free until the end of September 2009. The website stopped publishing new content on October 5, 2009. In December 2014, Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz was reported to be exploring the possibility of reviving the Rocky Mountain News ; he had placed a prototype online and was conducting market research to assess

493-402: The name for the proposed restart, reported that only 3,000 people had subscribed to the premium content subscription model. The three co-founders said that they did not intend to continue the planned business model, and, instead, would create a less-staffed news site, while Steve Foster and several former Rocky Mountain News journalists said that they believed that the original business model of

522-457: The next day, and that the newspaper's masthead, archives, and web site would be offered for sale, separate from its interest in the newspaper agency. Following the shutdown of the Rocky , the Post , now the only daily newspaper in Denver, resumed seven-day-a-week publication. A few years later, a study by a Portland State University professor attributed a decline of 30% in civic engagement following

551-520: The number of evening-published daily newspapers, has declined considerably in recent years, due to the ongoing consolidation of the newspaper industry as a whole, and the decline in readership and interest in evening newspapers in particular, which many observers have attributed to television and the internet, of which the former seems to be magnified by the presence of several 24-hour-a-day news operations on cable television . There have been 28 Joint Operating Agreements to date. The Chattanooga Times and

580-610: The original venture. The site relies on 15 contributors and six "INSighters". On September 7, 2009, INDT.com unveiled a new website design, allowing readers to read the news in a more organized format. On July 4, 2009, Steve Foster and several former Rocky Mountain News employees launched a new venture known as the Rocky Mountain Independent . The new website used a three-pronged revenue strategy: advertising, subscription revenues, and outside contributors. Subscriptions cost $ 4.00 per month and yearly subscriptions were 50% for

609-451: The passage of the Act was less about protecting editorial diversity within community newspaper markets than about inflating the profit margins of national newspaper chains. Large newspaper chains were able to sustain high profits while driving independent newspapers out of business, or forcing them to sell their stake to a chain. In fact, President Richard M. Nixon initially opposed the passage of

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638-742: The same city or geographic area combine business operations while maintaining separate—and competitive—news operations. The first joint operating agreement was between Albuquerque Tribune (then the New Mexico State Tribune ) and the Albuquerque Journal in Albuquerque, New Mexico , signed on February 20, 1933. Their agreement became typical of the type—both papers were printed on the same presses at different times of day. Classified advertising sales were consolidated, as were distribution agents . A joint entity to perform these functions

667-531: Was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography "for its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School ." In 2002, the paper won more first-place awards than any other Western newspaper. In 2003, the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography was awarded to the Rocky Mountain News photography staff "for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires." The paper also won

696-528: Was considered more politically conservative than the Post . On January 23, 2007, the Rocky Mountain News redesigned the newspaper to a smaller, magazine-style format with more color pages and photographs, full-page photo section covers, a new masthead logo, and different page numbering from the previous design. The redesign was the result of new presses that allowed the newspaper to print about 25% faster than its old presses, at an average speed of 60,000 issues per hour. On December 4, 2008, E. W. Scripps put

725-399: Was created, with equal representation on its board from both papers. Newsgathering and editorial operations remained completely separate, although located under one roof in different portions of the same building. Arrangements similar to this allowed most medium-sized United States cities to have two daily newspapers until fairly recently. The number of joint operating agreements, as well as

754-398: Was equally owned by the E. W. Scripps Company and by MediaNews Group , which owns The Post . The two newspapers continued to publish separately except during the weekends, when the Rocky Mountain News was published only on Saturday and The Denver Post only on Sunday; each newspaper had one page of editorials in the other paper's weekend edition. They maintained their rivalry. The Rocky

783-705: Was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. As of March 2006, the Monday–Friday circulation was 255,427. From the 1940s until 2009, the newspaper was printed in a tabloid format. Under the leadership of president, publisher, and editor John Temple, the Rocky Mountain News had won four Pulitzer Prizes since 2000. Most recently in 2006, the newspaper won two Pulitzers, in Feature Writing and Feature Photography . The paper's final issue appeared on Friday, February 27, 2009, less than two months shy of its 150th anniversary. Its demise left Denver

812-525: Was printed on a printing press from Omaha, Nebraska , that had been hauled by oxcart during the start of the Colorado Gold Rush . Elizabeth "Libby" Byers accompanied the press from Nebraska to Denver and joined her husband as a copublisher and journalist at the paper. That first issue was printed only 20 minutes ahead of its rival, the Cherry Creek Pioneer . The Rocky went from a weekly to

841-525: Was soon adopted in many other newspapers, paving the way for advice columnists such as Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren . After a continued rivalry that almost put both papers out of business, the Rocky and The Post merged operations in 2001 under a joint operating agreement . Through the agreement, the Denver Newspaper Agency was formed. The new company ran all noneditorial operations of both papers, namely advertising and circulation, and

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