A group of Rocky Mountain News journalists with support and backing from three Denver entrepreneurs launched a subscription drive Monday for the online news site INDenverTimes.com.

Their goal is to get 50,000 subscribers by April 23 — the 150th anniversary of the first edition of the Rocky Mountain News — in order to launch the full site by May 4.

It’s been a long day and a long night. It is too early to say what’s next, but please stick with us as we regroup here in the coming days. Some of our friends and colleagues are moving on to the Denver Post, but it’s 10 people out of a newsroom of almost 250. Those moving on are not the only people responsible for bringing you the news nor the only people you’ve come to trust for the news. There is a group of copy editors, designers, reporters and web producers who want to do tomorrow what they were doing yesterday. We’ll see what shape that takes in the coming days, so stay tuned.