The Rocky Mountain News will publish its final edition on Friday. E. W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne broke the news to employees in the newsroom at noon today, just two months short of it’s 150th anniversary.
The Rocky Mountain News has been operating under a joint operating agreement with the Denver Post since 2001.
In the past ten years the newspaper has won four Pulitzer Prizes, three of them for photography. In 2006, photographer Todd Heisler won the Pulitzer for Feature Photography for “Final Salute,” a year-long essay on America’s war dead returning home for burial and honors.
In 2003, the photography staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for their coverage of Colorado’s raging wildfires.
And in 2000, the photography staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of the Columbine High School massacre.