Back in December, when IWantMyRocky.com debuted, John Ensslin, one of numerous Rocky Mountain News employees who helped launch the project, described the website as “more of a rally-the-troops kind of thing, where people can post their comments or even videos.”

Although the site succeeded in that respect, the enthusiasm and camaraderie it helped foster wasn’t enough to keep the Rocky in business. IWantMyRocky.com didn’t vanish in tandem with the tabloid, though.

Read Michael Roberts’ full post at Westword.com.

Following the sagas that played out in Denver and Albuquerque, Seattle has become the latest market that can no longer support two major dailies. Hearst in January was forced to make a critical decision on what to do with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Kill the P-I altogether, or let it live online. It chose, of course, the latter — and March 17 marked the last day a Post-Intelligencer print edition would roll off its presses. But was this a terribly sad, or actually quite promising turning point? Editor & Publisher offers this special report.

Created as part of a campaign to save the Rocky and re-launched as a news and advocacy site for journalism, IWantMyRocky.com is now a component of a larger project: a nonprofit corporation.

E.W. Scripps said it is finalizing an arrangement with the public library to assume ownership of the voluminous archives, including all digital and print newspaper clips, information files, microfilm, photos, correspondence, books and marketing material.

More than 100 projects, from community-financed reporting and media “test kitchens” at universities to a new journalism institute in India, are part of a $100 million, multi-year plan directed by Alberto Ibargüen. He’s president of the $2 billion John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and he’s out to save the news.

U.S. newspapers have shed jobs at a breakneck pace in 2009. Erica Smith, a multimedia producer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s STLtoday.com, puts paper cuts on the map.

As a handful of major American newspapers close and others barely cling to life, a small but growing body of economics research supports the notion that newspapers make a difference in their communities.

Watergate legend Bob Woodward says Monday’s revelation by The New York Times that two of its journalists had a tip on the Watergate scandal that he and Carl Bernstein later exposed is not as important as what they would have done with the tip.