And the envelope, please: How many people does it take to run an online-only metro news site? The answer appears to be 22, a number some occultists are said to believe holds psychic powers. Hearst, psychic, who'd a thunk it? That's the number I've heard from outsiders and that's the approximation we...

Cue up the Survivor theme song. And they come out swingin’: Def Leppard got half the equation right. Times are hard, people want to be entertained, and they want a lot of value for their money. So the band is touring with both Poison and Cheap Trick (the latter slumming for the summer, apparen...

sxc.hu I’ve lost count of the number of newspapers which have gone under since the beginning of the year. We’re not even through the first quarter of the year and yet, many (except those in the business who are desperately staying on top of every single death)  have simply stopped count...

The Rocky Mountain News has rolled the presses for the last time. Here's your Media Crack another-one-bites-the-dust edition: Everyone is competing to be more-elegiacal-than-thou in Romenesko-mourning the Rocky Mountain News, a Denver newspaper which, in the end, was only notable for being the loser...

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts My father was born in Colorado. One of my brothers lived for years in Aspen. He now lives in the Denver area, as does another brother. In my youth, I visited Colorado a handful of times. As an adult, a few more times still. When I first settled on journal...

In your funereal Thursday media column: the Rocky Mountain News is dead, we'll all see more dead soldiers, the New York Times is dying slowly [UPDATED: ad layoffs], and Tribune is dying quickly: After almost 150 years in business, the Rocky Mountain News is dead. It's the first major big-city paper ...

Egads. It was painful reading through the reader comments on this column by Mike Littkin of the Rocky Mountain News, bemoaning the impending doom of his newspaper. (It seems highly unlikely that there’s a white knight in the Rocky’s future, which means it will probably shut down in early...

Blog written by Liz Pope Technically The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News should function as allies, considering they’re both published by the Denver Newspaper Agency (DNA) and work in the same building. Nevertheless, with drops in readership and funding, these publications find themselves head...

            I’ve been posting a lot of articles from other sources lately, but honestly, this time I just couldn’t resist.  I think this story might bring new meaning to the question, “What would Jesus do if He were photographed while...

Kevin Flynn, Transportation Writer for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver wrote a couple of articles yesterday that caught my interest.  The first one is "Airlines losing more bags" which talks about a 12.5% increase nationwide in mis-handled bags.  He reports that at some airline...