On Wednesday, I Want My Rocky and Free Press’ SaveTheNews.org campaign are hosting a free community forum in Denver to bring together concerned citizens, journalists, policymakers and community leaders to discuss what policies we need — and what actions we can take — to support quality journalism. Please, join us!

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.

Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather told an Aspen audience Tuesday that journalism has declined to such a point that it is time for the government to intervene.

Most open-meetings, open-records and other right-to-know laws have been fought for and won by news organizations. When CSU officials voted in private to appoint a new chancellor, three Colorado news organizations sued. The university settled, and the public secured its right to know.

Its message: Journalism is in crisis. Democracy depends on quality reporting. We need policy solutions.

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.