RIP RMI
Sad news out of Denver: The Rocky Mountain Independent is no more.
The indie news site is currently refunding money to the 200 subscribers who agreed to pay $24 a year for access to RMI’s exclusive content, and no new content will be posted to the site.
The site was founded by a group of INDenverTimes vets, which, in turn, was founded earlier this year by a group of Rocky Mountain News journalists who wanted to create a news site after Scripps closed the struggling paper.
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As the dedicated, incredibly-hard-working laid-off RMN folks went through these iterations of online-only news sites, it appears that attrition took its toll: after INDenverTimes fell 47,000 subscribers short of its 50,000-subscriber goal, the company’s financial backers pulled
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