I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
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.
The New York Times has an interesting article on the plight of newspapers. And they ask the question — when will a major city in the United States become a no-newspaper town?
Albuquerque became a one-newspaper town a little…
The E.W Scripps Company, which owns the Rocky Mountain News, said on Dec. 4 that it was putting the paper for up sale and would close it if no buyer emerged by mid-January. Anyone else feeling deja vu?
Readership is down as young people gravitate to the Internet (where they often read newspapers or opinion based on papers). Newspaper advertising revenue was eroding even before the financial crisis; now it’s plunging. Newspapers’ old business strategies are dying; new rationales are unborn or infantile.
The news from the newspaper industry in the last week has been disturbing. The New York Times is borrowing some $225 million against its headquarters building to free up cash. The Tribune Company, which publishes The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Miami Herald, and The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, have joined the list of newspapers that are up for sale.
