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I Want My Rocky will hold a candlelight march from the Denver Press Club to the Denver Newspaper Agency building Thursday, Jan. 29, to show support for the Rocky Mountain News. The event is open to one and all: readers and writers, labor and management, Post and News and DNA, public officials and private citizens.
Each marcher — 150 total — will hold a candle and placard representing one year of the newspaper’s 150-year history. The group will gather at the Denver Press Club at 6 p.m. and head out single file to the DNA building at 6:30 p.m. Marchers will ring the building. The person bearing the 1859 placard and candle will light the candle representing 1860, 1860 will light 1861 and so on through 2009. The vigil will last about a half hour.
If you would like to be a part of this historic event, please contact John Ensslin at contactus@iwantmyrocky.com.
I am now a publisher but started out in large part because the ‘News’ allowed me to stringer for them and bought photos.
I am a journalist first and a publisher second. But I understand well the financial considerations that have taken this toll. We are all feeling the pain and we are all in mourning for the loss of so many great papers around the country.
J Dale Debber
Member, SPJ, SIPA