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Rocky Mountain News to close after 150 years

DENVER - FEBRUARY 26: A printing plate of one of the pages of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sits beside the presses as copies get set to roll off the presses at the E.W. Estlow printing facility in Denver, Co. late Thursday evening. The newspaper had been put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, but the search for a buyer proved unsuccessful. "Denver can't support two newspapers any longer," Scripps CEO Rich Boehne told staffers, some of whom cried at the news. "It's certainly not good news for you, and it's certainly not good news for Denver." The Rocky was founded in 1859 by William Byers, one of the most influential figures in Colorado history. Scripps bought the paper in 1926 and immediately began a newspaper war with The Post. That fight ebbed and flowed over the course of the rest of the 20th century, culminating in penny-a-day subscriptions in the late '90s. The closure will cost 228 newsroom employees their jobs..(Photo by Marc Piscotty/ © 2009)

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Rocky Mountain News Closes
DENVER - FEBRUARY 26: A printing plate of one of the pages of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sits beside the presses as copies get set to roll off the presses at the E.W. Estlow printing facility in Denver, Co. late Thursday evening. The newspaper had been put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, but the search for a buyer proved unsuccessful. "Denver can't support two newspapers any longer," Scripps CEO Rich Boehne told staffers, some of whom cried at the news. "It's certainly not good news for you, and it's certainly not good news for Denver." The Rocky was founded in 1859 by William Byers, one of the most influential figures in Colorado history. Scripps bought the paper in 1926 and immediately began a newspaper war with The Post. That fight ebbed and flowed over the course of the rest of the 20th century, culminating in penny-a-day subscriptions in the late '90s. The closure will cost 228 newsroom employees their jobs..(Photo by Marc Piscotty/ © 2009)