We continue a week-long series of posts marking the six-month anniversary of the Rocky’s final edition. Today, Cindy House, co-founder and editor of the Rocky Mountain Independent, discusses forays into new a business model.

We continue a week-long series of posts marking the six-month anniversary of the Rocky’s final edition. Today, M.E. Sprengelmeyer, former Washington, D.C., correspondent, talks about his journey on the back roads to becoming a small-town newspaper publisher.

Today, I Want My Rocky and SaveTheNews.org launch a week-long series of blogs, marking the six-month anniversary of the paper’s closure. Former Rocky journalists talk about what we’ve done, what we’ve learned and where we think our industry is headed. Today’s installment, by Kim Humphreys, makes the case for journalists to participate in policy and business decisions regarding our craft.

After the latest round of layoffs, the Fort Collins paper’s staff stands at half the size it was at the start of 2007.

The company reversed a second-quarter loss owing to prior-year write-downs of its newspaper businesses and partnerships, and though print advertising continued to slide, falling 29 percent, the results exceeded Wall Street’s views.

With a deep recession compounding the news industry’s own structural economic crisis, four out of 10 journalism and mass communications graduates have been unable to find full-time jobs, according to a new survey from the University of Georgia.