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The Rocky Mountain News (nicknamed the Rocky [2]) was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. As of March 2006, the Monday–Friday circulation was 255,427. [1]
Robert W. Furnas, in 1859 associated with the Nebraska Advertiser, later recalled that Byers had bought the equipment of the defunct newspaper and had it taken by ox team to Denver, then in western Kansas Territory, where he used it in the publication of the Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky Mountain News was the first newspaper printed in ...
John Charles Vivian (June 30, 1887 – February 10, 1964) was an American attorney, journalist, and Republican politician who served as the 30th governor of the state of Colorado from 1943 to 1947. [1]
In March 1903, a newspaper article was published in The Rocky Mountain News with a proposed design for the Robert Burns memorial in Denver. [16] The newspaper article included an illustration of the proposed design for the statue and pedestal. The proposed design was created by the F.E. Edbrooke Architect Company. [16]
Marilyn Van Derbur was born on June 16, 1937, in Denver, Colorado., [2] the youngest of four daughters to a family in the Denver mortuary business. (The lighted cross on Mount Lindo southwest of Denver was built so Van Derbur's grandmother could see her husband's final resting place from her home in Park Hill. [4])
February 10, 1960 cover of the Rocky Mountain News. In 1940 the couple moved to Denver, where Foster assumed the reins of the Rocky Mountain News as editor and chief executive officer. [3] At that time, the News faced stiff competition from its rival Denver newspaper, The Denver Post, and was in danger of losing the fight. In 1942 Foster made a ...
Denver, CO: A. B. Hirschfeld Press. ISBN 1-886483-10-8. "Robert W. Speer, Mayor of Denver, Is Dead: Cathedral Bells Toll as Flags are Placed at Half Mast in Memory". Rocky Mountain News. 15 May 1918. pp. 1, 3. Eaton, Raymond A. (15 May 1918). "Speer was Man of Great Vision; Had Many Ideas for Better City". Rocky Mountain News. p. 3.
He left the Denver Post in 1984 and took a position as the reader ombudsman at the Rocky Mountain News, which was the arch-rival of the Denver Post. [1] He remained with the Rocky Mountain News for eight years, until his retirement from the newspaper business in 1992. [2]