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Former Newspaper Staffers Plan Online News Site

A number of former Rocky Mountain News staffers have announced the launch of indenvertimes.com, an online news site with the aim of keeping the Rocky alive. The E.W. Scripps Co. closed the Rocky Mountain News last month after failing to find a qualified buyer. To launch the site, In Denver Times needs 50,000 subscribers by April 23, 2009, the 150th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain News. If that goal is reached, the full site will launch on Monday, May 4, 2009.

Seattle Paper Plans For Online Only Edition

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has informed some of its staff that they have been selected to work for an online only version of the newspaper, if publisher Hearst moves forward with plans to shutdown the print edition. Two reporters said they received "provisional offers" from P-I New Media boss Michelle Nicolosi or Hearst executive Ken Riddick, according to the P-I Web site.

Rocky Mountain News Dead

A newly elected US Representative out of Colorado has given himself and hometown bloggers credit for killing local newspaper Rocky Mountain News, which stopped its presses last Friday. Rep. Jared Polis (CO-D) likely stunned the Netroots Nation in Your Neighborhood event with this quip: