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When Denver became a one-newspaper town, some of the Rocky Mountain News staffers refused to give up. And today, according to our sister site, The Colorado Independent, those staffers are trying to launch online-only news site.
Former Rocky Mountain News staffers have started In Denver Times, if they receive 50,000 $4.99-per-month pledges by April 23, the 150th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain News, the new news site “will go live with our site to revive a tradition of distinguished reporting and editing with 21st-century electronic delivery.”
The site will charge $6.99 per month for a three-month subscription and $4.99 a month for a year-long subscription. A six-month subscription will set back buyers $5.99 per month.
This is similar to — if much more ambitious — an effort in Tuscon.
This news comes on the same day that the Seattle Post Intelligencer announced it will issue its final edition tomorrow. The Post-Intelligencer “will keep the online version of the P-I alive, a decision that began to leak out earlier this month when some current P-I news staffers were offered jobs with the new Web venture.”
Watch the introductory video, with music that sounds like RJD2, below:
