Everybodysagenius’s Weblog

Hey Everybody,

When I was a kid, I often fantasized about being a newspaper man. To me they were some of toughest, smartest and most interesting men in the world. True little men taking on corruption, scandal and city hall with the power of the press. As a social media guy these days, I often get sucked in the same “Dying age of the Newspaper” discussion. I’m sure you know it. I just wanted to share with everyone, this article and link that I saw. It is a Website that is being built to save the Rocky Mountain News.

Below is a excerpt from the story that I read on it. It appeared in the Daily Dog and was written by Sally Falkow:

Staffers at Dying Denver Daily Answer the Call: Group Takes Action on the Web to Save the Rocky Mountain News On Dec. 13, a group of staff members from Denver’s Rocky Mountain News gathered at the downtown Denver Press Club and agreed that they would no longer stand idle as their beloved paper careened closer and closer to a dire fate. And they decided to use the Internet — widely credited with hastening the demise of newspapers — to get the job done, the NY Times reports.

The paper, known informally as ‘The Rocky,’ had recently been put up for sale, with the distinct possibility it could close next year. The group of about 30 met for two hours trying to figure out how they could save one of Colorado’s oldest businesses, which has been churning out news here since before the Civil War. “The overall attitude at the meeting was that they weren’t going to sit around and do nothing,” David Milstead, the paper’s finance editor, told Times writer Dan Frosch.

In what staff members said was possibly the first effort of its kind, they decided to start a website, iwantmyrocky.com, so that readers could voice their support for the paper and the Rocky’s own employees could publicly make the case for its survival.

So, please check out the story on the Daily Dog site. And then go visit Iwantmyrocky.com and lets save one of these great papers.

Best,

Will Flavell