Two months short of the 150th anniversary of the first run, the presses at Denver’s Rocky Mountain News are running for the last time tonight. E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne and newspaper division leader Mark Contreras abruptly told employees this morning that Friday’s edition would be the last. Online editor Mike Noe is tweeting the last night as @RMN_Newsroom. Reading it is equally sickening and heartbreaking. Launched earlier today, whokilledtherocky.com, is a place to vent and Poynter has created a group for support (you have to join the Poynter community site to see it). The Rocky was locked in a bitter rate war with the Denver Post for years, entering into a joint operating agreement about a decade ago. Sadly, the Rocky survived the war only to die in the peace. Good luck, friends.
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