{"id":153,"date":"2009-02-26T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/26\/so-long-rocky\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T05:23:22","slug":"so-long-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/so-long-rocky\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Rocky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154\" title=\"Rocky Mountain News\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rocky.png\" alt=\"Rocky Mountain News\" width=\"417\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rocky.png 519w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rocky-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/>After 150 years of publishing, and four Pulitzer Prizes, the Rocky Moutain News will publish its last paper tomorrow. Denver will become a one-newspaper-town, much like the rest of the nation, after the Rocky closes its doors. While the news of the Rocky&#8217;s demise was sudden, it was not surprising. The current economic free-fall has hammered the newspaper business, an industry that was already in severe trouble. The Rocky lost $16 million last year bringing its debt to $130 million. Nearly all advertising is down, with classified ads&#8211;an important revenue stream for newspapers&#8211;continuing to feel the negative effect of online alternatives such as Craig&#8217;s List. It&#8217;s a tough time to be in the newspaper business, and even worse for the 200 or so Rocky Mountain News staff who are now without employment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211;30&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 150 years of publishing, and four Pulitzer Prizes, the Rocky Moutain News will publish its last paper tomorrow. Denver will become a one-newspaper-town, much like the rest of the nation, after the Rocky closes its doors. While the news of the Rocky&#8217;s demise was sudden, it was not surprising. The current economic free-fall has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/so-long-rocky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Long Rocky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-journalism","category-media-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}