Denver Resurrection An Epic Fail

Those determined former staffers of Denver's Rocky Mountain News, who bounced back from their newspaper's closure by banding together to launch an online news effort called In Denver Times, have apparently failed to reach their self-imposed, 50,000-subscriber goal by April 23, so ... it appears that news and money are parting ways, again.

So far, the site has not announced how many subscribers it managed to attract, silence that some might say suggests the pay-for-access model fell embarrassingly short of its goal (witness our own petition effort, which has fewer signatures than there were staffers at the former Rocky Mountain News).

Here's a snippet from a story in the Denver Business Journal:

In Denver Times, a news website launched by former staff members of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, has lost its key financial backers, according to news reports.

The Associated Press quoted David Milstead, a former News business reporter and columnist, as saying the website staff is now looking for new backers for an online news service under a different name.

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The In Denver Times staff had been volunteering their time to report and edit stories for the website since mid-March. If the venture had gone forward, the website's "official" launch would have been May 4.

If only tenacity were dollars.

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-- TJ Sullivan

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