Rocky Mountain News creates interactive news map
Scripps-owned US newspaper the Rocky Mountain News has created an online map of its news, business and sports features to give readers a better sense of where news is happening. “We created the feature...
View ArticleThe Latest Word: Rocky Mountain News cancels second funeral Twitter
The Rocky Mountain News has withdrawn plans to cover a second funeral using microblogging service Twitter. The decision comes after the paper received widespread criticism for sending a reporter to...
View ArticleCovering media job cuts – staff facing redundancy speak online
Having set up a timeline dedicated to reporting on the sweeping job cuts affecting both senior and junior journalists alike, a trend is emerging for laid-off staff to use blogs, Twitter and other...
View ArticleSFNblog: Rocky Mountain News staffers canvassing support for newspaper via web
iwantmyrocky.com, launched at the weekend, is ‘a vehicle’ for staffers at the Rocky Mountain News to highlight why their newspaper is worth saving, SFNblog reports.Similar Posts: TNW Media: Two years...
View ArticleVisualEditors: Rocky Mountain News goes retro with final front page
Following yesterday’s news that today [Friday] sees the very last edition of Colarado newspaper, Rocky Mountain News, here’s it’s final front page – and it’s gone old school. Presentation director,...
View ArticleMatthew Roberts: Rocky Mountain News’ video obit
Via Ken Kobre, comes Matthew Robert’s Vimeo video ‘Final Edition': Original video post at this link…Similar Posts: First annual Vimeo Awards offer $25,000 grant to overall winner Yahoo News launches...
View ArticleSND.org: 10 things I learned at the Rocky
“My mind races between sadness, disbelief, anger and a cold, whispering fear that what we are facing as an industry could very well do the rest of us in,” writes Jonathon Berlin. In a visually...
View ArticleDNA09 – Economically distressed but making the most of it
It started off bleakly, but the talk got more positive as the participants warmed up. These are four digital leaders, driving forward ambitious online projects in their respective countries: Eric...
View ArticleNewseum.org: Video –‘The next generation of news’
We can’t embed it, so follow this link for a video looking at ‘Going Digital – the Next Generation of News’ from the Newseum, with some interesting interview extracts and a look at the Rocky Mountain...
View ArticleI Want My Rocky: Former Rocky Mountain News journalists to launch new...
Watch this space… journalists from the now departed Rocky Mountain News are set to announce new plans for local news coverage later today. Full post at this link…Similar Posts: TNW Media: Two years...
View ArticleDenverPost.com: Ex-Rocky Mountain News staffers lose backing
InDenverTimes, the online-only news site set up by former Rocky Mountain News staffers after the paper closed, has lost its backers. If new financiers are found a new site, under a different name will...
View ArticleDenver Business Journal: Ex-Rocky Mountain News journalists’ venture to stop...
Hailed as a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Rocky Mountain News, the Rocky Mountain Independent, the second venture launched by former News journalists, will no longer produce original content as...
View ArticleThe Media Business: ‘Good intentions are not enough for providing news’
Robert G. Picard, an academic specialising in media economics and management, takes a realistic look at journalism as a charitable enterprise: “Many journalists pursuing new online initiatives are...
View ArticleTNW Media: Two years after newspaper closes, 67% of its journalists earning less
TNW Media reports that a former editor of the now-closed Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado surveyed his former journalists to find out what they are now earning. Most of them are earning less...
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