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February 26, 2009 | 12:30 pm
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After nearly 150 years, the Rocky Mountain News will publish its last newspaper on Friday.
From all of us at I Want My Rocky, thank you doesn’t seem to say everything you, our readers, mean to us. We will treasure all the kind words sent in to us via this Web site and the support you’ve given us by making the Rocky your newspaper of choice in Denver.
We are truly sorry for the outcome.
Please keep watching this Web site for further announcements on where you can find your favorite writers.
I’m so sorry. This is so awful.
I feel like my dog died.
Best wishes to all of you.
I sure hope someone picks up Vince Carroll among others.
I sure hope Vince Carroll lands somewhere.
What a devastating loss — for all of us who care about and value local journalism, who loved living in a two-paper town, who detest how Dean has gutted his papers nationwide and whose habit demands we read a paper and yet who resent having no alternative but the Post, and, finally, and most important, who mourn for the loss of all your jobs.
Here’s hoping all of you land on your feet.
I don’t subscribe to the Rocky but I still shed some tears. Your paper is an institution in this state and I am so sorry to hear about this.
Godspeed to you all, if you belive in god or not, I don’t care. I just want you all to know that this is a blow to local media. I will miss your opinion and your voice.
Take care of yourselves.
LizO – from Colorado Springs
This sucks. I’m very sorry.
As a retired News employee, I cannot begin to express the extreme sadness I feel at the news of its closing. I was hoping the News would hang on, and even wishing that if necessary, the two papers would merge so the glorious history of the Rocky Mountain News would continue in one form or another. I’ll miss the extremely talented cadre of columnists and the professionalism of the editorial staff. I was a reader of the News going back into the 1940s, and I had the pleasure of knowing many of those journalistic stars over the years. I’m thinking of Jack Foster and his wife Frances (Molly Mayfield, who put the News on the map), Pocky Marranzino, Bob Chase, Chet Nelson and Bob Collins, and dozens of others who made the Rocky Mountain News the success it became. As I drive past the new newspaper building, and realize how much money was spent on the production facility, I cannot help but think that the management overextended itself, counting on the economy to be moving ever upward, and misjudging the effects of competition from the Internet. I can only wish the very best to all those News employees who worked tirelessly to make the paper the best it could be. And they succeeded greatly. I hope, too, that this website will serve as a clearing house for information as to where the displaced News employees land. To them, I say thank you very much.
Sad news.
I have enjoyed the Rocky since I moved to Colorado in 1977. I always started my day reading the News and it won’t be the same with the Post, the USA Today, or whatever I try as the Rocky’s replacement.
I delivered the Washington Post during the whole Watergate episode and have always read a daily newspaper. I would put the Rocky Mountain News up against any other newspaper in the world.
The staff should not only be proud of their product but also of their professionalism in such a trying situation.
I wish you all the best and I hope you find new work quickly. Your words will be greatly missed.
Gives me the blues.
What a blow. I’m deeply saddened to see the Rocky and the great news staff leave such a void in Denver.
And I’m grieving for journalism. As we lose print news, we erode our community, we diminish our understanding, and we take our democracy for granted.
All the best to the Rocky staff. May your voices ring out again. You will be sorely missed.
To all my former, fellow photo staffers. I just wanted to say you were the best. Working with you was always a kick because of your always high standards. I will always think of you as family and wish you and yours the best. Keep in touch, land on your feet.
Damn its a sad day…
-jay
As predicted, the hammer falls. I worked there 1968-1971, and it was in some ways the best journalism job I ever had. But that was 40 years ago, in the era of typewriters and linotypes and spikes and slots and wire machines. Speed Graphics were still being used by some photogs. We young turks thought it was a pretty stodgy place, and maybe shook things up a bit. In a way, I’m surprised the Rocky hung on so long, but it always provided lively competition for the Post, and now that, too, will be gone. The competition thing bothers me, but that’s a temporary phase, as competition will probably flourish some day on digital platforms. So, I don’t really mourn the passing of the Rocky so much as remember it fondly. Damn it was fun.
Thank you Rocky staff for informing me about my community and the world.
Dear Rocky staffers,
Thank you for 150 years of distinguished reporting. My favorite time of the day is drinking coffee, delving into the news and hearing from my favorite writers. Part of me kept hoping that this outcome was not the inevitable. I wish you all the best of luck. This state is suffering a great deal from the loss… as am I.
I am so sad that this day has come, it is a sad day for the loyal readers of the Rocky, it will be a huge void in the Colorado media landscape.
I have a suggestion for some of you who want to keep part of the rocky alive, use this site to publish news content, cause like so many people I want my rocky! take the rocky to the internet with a 2.0 version and the community support will be there for you!
Love the rocky,
Nickolas
The Post is bringing over the triumvirate of Littwin, Johnson and Griego. And so the Post pushes itself even futher to the fringe.
Thank you and good luck to everyone from the Rocky Mountain News. Denver and Colorado are greatly diminished by this loss.
As another survivor of newspaper downsizing (I left USA TODAY in 2007 and for eight years in the 1990s was your loyal opposition over at The Post), I can only offer my sincere regrets and hopes that all of you find a way to do what you most want to do in the wake of this awful, unfair development.
It was an honor to compete against you, work with you and after moving on from The Post, to follow you. I’m a subscriber to the last. Thanks for your 149 years, 10 months. We all will miss you and are poorer for the Rocky’s silencing.
I have seen companies come and go over my 45 years.
This is the first time I’ve ever cried.
So, so, so sad.
Buh-bye.
Thank you for 150 years.
Thank you for publishing my favorite paper. I’ve written a farewell note on my blog:
A voice has gone silent. The silence echoes across the Rocky Mountains. We mourn a reliable friend who visited us each morning with the serious, as well as the humorous. Sometimes we agreed with our friend; sometimes we didn’t. Sometimes we laughed at our fired; sometimes we yelled. Our friend saw us through good times; and saw us through bad times. But, it was our constant morning partner to begin our day and we knew that our friend will always be there. Not even the worse storms or blizzard would stop our friend. But now, our friend, who was around for nearly 150 years, has passed away. Leaving a legacy of Pulitzer Prizes, top reporting, professionalism and the love of the Rocky Mountain West in their wake.
Goodbye Rocky Mountain News; 149 years, 10 months, 4 days young; may you rest in peace.
Am sad to see the News go. Grew up with it and now living in Korea for the past 8 years it has been my connection to Colorado. Will really miss it. What would it take for someone or group of someones to buy the name and continue the paper as a very small local paper until things improve?
Anyways, will miss the News a lot. When I was visiting the States I would start every morning with the front page and finish with the comics. Too bad.
Thanks for the memories.
I am just so sick over this. RIP, Rocky. The staff is in my thoughts and prayers.
For John, Mac and Glav, I’m drinking one for ya tonight.
–MPF
When I heard the news today, it felt like a kick in the gut … and I don’t even work there.
I wish you all the best, and I hope your talented employees will rebound at other publications.
R.I.P. Rocky Mountain News
I wrote an elegy for the News this afternoon. There was no point in doing anything else. Like Scott, I feel like somebody died.
http://www.metzgerblog.com/2009/02/26/rocky-mountain-news-thats-my-newspaper-closing/
My dearest Kim,
I’m so proud of you and all your gallant efforts on behalf of the Rocky Mountain News. You fought so hard. You and all your fellow RMN staffers are in my heart and prayers tonight.
A very sad day. I’ve been reading the Rocky for well over 40 years. It’s much like having a relative die who’s been suffering from an incurable disease; you understand the end will come, and yet, it’s still a combination of shock and depression when it finally arrives. I’ll give the Post a try, but we’ve all lost a cherished friend in the Rocky. RIP, old friend.
sad doesn’t even begin to describe how i feel…numb
i keep thinking that i’ll wake up tomorrow and it won’t be true.
godspeed
Sad, sad day for the newspaper business. I work for one on the East Coast, and am disheartened by the landslide of bad news this industry is trying to absorb.
To hear about the Rocky’s passing, it’s like someone in the family died. Since I moved here from Atlanta in 2006, I’ve always read the Rocky. It’s a better paper than the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and even better than the Post. I will miss waking up to the tabloid and the great quality of news I recieved from it. Goodbye, my Rocky.
Dear Rocky: All is forgiven — please, please come back, if as an online-only.
Simple truth is… The Denver Post simply does it better.
Please deliver more papers to Boulder!
All my support. You rocks!
Dear Frenz!,..
I’m so proud of you and all your gallant efforts on behalf of the Rocky Mountain News. You fought so hard. You and all your fellow RMN staffers are in my heart and prayers tonight.
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