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		<title>What&#8217;s next for the news? Be part of the discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/09/15/whats-next-for-the-news-be-part-of-the-discussion/</link>
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		<title>New models, new challenges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/27/new-models-new-challenges/</link>
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		<title>A golden age for community newspapers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/25/a-golden-age-for-community-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Six months after the final edition, what have we learned?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I Want My Rocky and <a href="http://www.savethenews.org/">SaveTheNews.org</a> launch a week-long series of blogs, marking the six-month anniversary of the paper's closure. Former <em>Rocky </em>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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/24/six-months-after-the-final-edition-what-have-we-learned/</link>
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		<title>Coloradoan cuts nine more jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the latest round of layoffs, the Fort Collins paper's staff stands at half the size it was at the start of 2007.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/24/coloradoan-cuts-nine-more-jobs/</link>
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		<title>E.W. Scripps reports $2.3M profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/10/ew-scripps-reports-23m-profit/</link>
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		<title>Grim outlook for new (and old) journalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/08/05/grim-outlook-for-new-and-old-journalists/</link>
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		<title>Can readers be persuaded to pay?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For news organizations trying to figure out how to get readers to donate money or pay for online content, Dr. B.J. Fogg, a persuasive-technology psychologist at Stanford, is the go-to guy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/07/30/can-readers-be-persuaded-to-pay/</link>
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		<title>Rather laments &#8216;journalism under siege,&#8217; calls for White House commission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/07/29/rather-laments-journalism-under-siege-calls-for-white-house-commission/</link>
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		<title>What have news organizations done for us lately?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/2009/07/25/what-have-news-organizations-done-for-us-lately/</link>
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