In Denver, Residents Lament the Closing of a Newspaper

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DENVER — The people of Denver woke up on Saturday for the first time in a one newspaper town. After 150 years, The Rocky Mountain News — The Rocky, as it was called — was closed for good by its owner, the E. W. Scripps Company.

It was the mention of daily newspapers, not the strong black coffee, that curled lips among the breakfast crowd at Annie’s Café and Bar on Denver’s gritty East Colfax Avenue.

The kitschy restaurant, decorated with an assortment of vintage lunch boxes and toys, had the one remaining large paper in town, The Denver Post, to offer customers. There were not many takers — and not because diners were carrying a torch for The Rocky.

“I don’t know anyone my age who has time in the morning to read a newspaper,” said Chris Olivier, 37, a retail manager who said he gets his daily news from dozens of Web sites and a few niche publications circulating in specific Denver neighborhoods. “It’s sad to see such a huge part of our state’s history lost, but the market is moving, and newspapers haven’t moved with it. They don’t get the Web.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/media/02denver.html?th&emc=th