> After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition last Friday, on February 27, 2009. Could this be a lesson for radio? The owners of The Rocky Mountain News, Scripps, Inc., decided to close down the newspaper serving the Denver, Colorado since 1859. The economy is one reason for the end of the newspaper’s run, but it’s inability to change the business model for newspapers in the main culprit. The main factor is that newspapers were unable to compete with the Internet for advertising dollars and to deliver information instantly. It took newspaper companies … Continue reading >The Rocky Mountain News Published Its Last Edition