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You hear complaints about The Denver Post’s reduced coverage of politics, but the newspaper still has more political reporters than any other news outlet in Colorado. And it’s still the state...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/02/19/reduced-staff-of-political-reporters-at-denver-post-reflects-decline-in-colorado-journalism/

Around midnight on April 2, 2003, five weeks before John Hickenlooper won the first election of his political career, Hick campaign manager Paul Lhevine and other campaign staffers arrived at the...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/10/29/how-a-rocky-mountain-news-endorsement-launched-the-political-career-of-john-hickenlooper/

No matter what you thought of Dusty Saunders during his 54 years at the Rocky Mountain News, it’s hard not to love him after reading his memoir, which came out late last year. The book, Heeere�...

http://bigmedia.org/2012/05/19/saunders-memoir-chronicles-newspaper-era-that-seems-like-ancient-history/

Mitt Romney promised to sit down with real-life reporters (yes, they’re still out there) during his visit today to Colorado, according to a report yesterday by Fox 31 political correspondent El...

http://bigmedia.org/2012/05/09/romney-tells-radio-hosts-hes-flipped-flopped-on-only-one-issue-and-they-dont-follow-up-with-evidence-to-the-contrary/

During the year, I’ll be asking Denver journalists what they’ve been up to since leaving the Rocky or The Post…-and what they think of the state of Colorado journalism these days. I previou...

http://bigmedia.org/2010/04/06/what-happened-to-john-rebchook/

In his article in the current issue of 5280 Magazine, Maximillian Potter describes an “executive agreement” between former Rocky Editor John Temple and E. W. Scripps, which owned the Rocky. �...

http://bigmedia.org/2009/06/10/temple-misleads-in-his-response-to-5280/

Former Rocky reporter Ed Sealover started today at the Denver Business Journal. Sealover was hired just about the time that things started going seriously down hill for the Rocky. It’s good new...

http://bigmedia.org/2009/03/09/sealover-at-biz-journal/

Gov. Ritter is signing the so-called FASTER legislation into law today, after it cleared the state legislature last week. I wrote about this legislation in my final Rocky column. You’re excus...

http://bigmedia.org/2009/03/02/reporters-to-republicans-where%E2%80%99s-the-money/

How classy of E.W. Scripps to give the Rocky an extra day to publish a last edition. Scripps could have shut down the paper yesterday and saved a little money. After all, if the 150-year old news...

http://bigmedia.org/2009/02/27/112/

Remember in early Feb., a letter leaked from the Denver Newspaper Agency pinpointed the death of the Rocky Mountain News as occuring on March 1, 2009. The letter drafted for Rocky and Post advert...

http://bigmedia.org/2009/02/26/will-dnas-march-1-date-be-real/