rocky mountain news
Report from Denver Forum on the Future of News
The following is a guest blog post from Steve Outing, a Boulder-based media consultant and columnist focused on reinventing news. Steve volunteered as a facilitator at the SaveTheNews.org forum on the future of journalism in Denver on September 16.
The Future of Minority Media
The Rocky Mountain News made great strides to become a newspaper that reflected the diversity of the local community. But its closure does not bode well for the future of minority media. The following is a guest post from Dr. Delio D. Tamayo, a former member of the Rocky Mountain News Latino Advisory Council:
The closing of the Rocky Mountain News after 150 years of uninterrupted publication prompted me to ponder the future of journalism and of the newspaper industry in particular. As a resident of Colorado and a former member of the Rocky Mountain News Latino Advisory Council, I feel particularly affected by the loss of the paper.
