Denver: one-paper town

It’s been blogged and noted a lot this past weekend, but I thought I would at least make a passing mention of the Rocky Mountain News closing its doors, especially within the context of the series of posts I made back in January detailing the woes in the newspaper industry.

It’s not the first newspaper to go belly up, and definitely won’t be the last. If anything, the Rocky Mountain News’ existence was something of an anomaly in the United States, as most #2 newspapers in most US cities succumbed long ago. As a Newsweek article mentioned, “Denver will now be, like most of America, a one-paper town.”

As I mentioned back in January, by way of quoting someone else, the novel twist for this business cycle won’t be the “one-paper town,” but rather the “no-paper town.” It’s only a matter of time before a large American city loses it’s only newspaper.