Denver Post to suspend weekday sales throughout much of Colorado
The Denver Post announced Thursday that it will stop delivering print copies to the Western Slope, including Grand Junction and farther reaches of Colorado such as Durango, Gunnison, Telluride, Alamosa, Walsenberg, Trinidad and Lamar.
After July 12, the Post will deliver only Sunday editions.
Print subscribers will be switched to online subscriptions, the newspaper said.
Single-copy sales of the paper will also be halted in areas more than 100 miles from Denver.
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Wow. So does this spell ‘doom’ for the Post as well?
Actually, if you have been following the numbers, the Post has been doomed for over a year. It’s just taking longer to die than the Rocky.
So will Denver be one of the cities without a daily?
A better way to put it might be that Denver will be one of the first large cities without a daily. Sad as it makes be, the daily newspaper is dying out. The economics just don’t work anymore.
Oops – didn’t review my typing well enough. Meant to say “sad as it makes me“.
Here it is mid-afternoon and the DP hasn’t even posted this news on their own website. What irony is that for a so-called news organization that can’t even report it’s own news in a timely fashion to it’s readers. Ha!
The comPOST often ” sanitizes ” the news. This story is just an example of how blatant it is..
I still think THIS type of news ” paper ” is the wave of the future. It may just be a system that is not accepted yet. Remember, we had electric cars at the turn of the century, too.
Not sure about functional electric cars at the turn of the century (which century?), but otherwise agree with ThP and Brian. InD is the news of the (near) future.
the Poat did report this on their website:
http://www.denverpost.com/businessheadlines/ci_12258588
uh – the Post, that is
Glad to see I’m not the only one who has occasional episodes of “butterfingers syndrome”!
So much for “We Are Colorado”!!
Sad to see that Denver’s only remaining daily is getting smaller. Wow, the Post will only deliver Sunday editions to those communities after July 12! I wonder if those print subscribers are going to at least get some of their money back. The future of the daily newspaper has been going downhill for sometime and it looks like Denver may one of the first cities without a major daily in the US. I miss the print form of the Rocky Mountain News and I hope that the Denver Post isn’t heading for its doom.
I agree with Ted, the “Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire” just got a whole lot quieter. I do agree with the above commenters that newspaper websites like INDT.com are the future, but it’s going to take a long time for newspapers to take full advantage of what the internet can offer and for consumers to get used to idea of paying for news, in-depth investigations, and columns again. Good to see some stories still being posted here and an e-mail response from INDT to my comment from three days ago, said that they will likely add a few more journalists/columnists in the coming month. I miss some of the good reporters/columnists that INDT used to have and the live chats. Hopefully a smaller operation will be much more successful than the original venture.
There is ALSO the Denver Daily News, for what it’s worth.
And, FYI… http://twitter.com/themediaisdying