More links on the demise of Rocky

Here are some links to stories on the poignant loss of the Rocky Mountain News:

Chicago Tribune’s Johnathan Berlin, who worked at the Rocky Mountain News from late 2001 to 2005, shares 10 things he learned there.

"I've learned in every newsroom I've worked, but I came of age as a journalist at the Rocky,” Berlin writes. ‘I owe a significant debt to that wonderful place."

Joanne Kelley, who was a business reporter at the Rpckjy,. Is looking for a job, and she isn't sure what she will do next. She is still reeling from the strain of the paper's slow death.


John Diaz of San Francisco Chronicle and former Denver Post staffer, recalls competing against the Rocky in the 80s

“There was a time when I enjoyed the Rocky Mountain News' smallest failings. If it missed a good story that was in the Denver Post, I breathed a sigh of relief. If its carriers were a few minutes later or a few yards farther from the porch than their Post counterparts, it was a good day. Each time I saw someone choose the broadsheet Post over the tabloid Rocky at side-by-side news racks, I felt a little rush of smug satisfaction.Such was the ferocity of the last great American newspaper war.”


A New York Times story talks about a nn-subscriber picking up the last Rocky "for sentimental value"



Ex-Rocky editor John Temple says he won't stay on with The E.W. Scripps Co. and says he has not decided what he will do.

The Rocky published its last edition Friday. Scripps said the newspaper had lost $16 million last year and no viable buyer could be found.

This post expands slightly on links found at Poynter Online.