Friday 27th February saw the
last ever edition of the
Rocky Mountain News, after it became "a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges" according to
Ricky Boehne, CEO of
Rocky owner
E.W. Scripps. However, now that the presses have stopped, many former staffers have migrated to the employee created
I want my Rocky online-only news site.
I want my Rocky was
created by Rocky Mountain News employees in December, initially to fight for the newspaper and as a "way for readers to send in their comments" explains
Mel Pomponio, former
Rocky Union chair and presentation editor,
in a video entitled 'The Final Edition' on the new site. But it seems that the project has gone further now that the
RMN is no more; many of its former journalists have begun publishing regularly on the site.
