Another newspaper to die

Denver was one of the few remaining big cities with two newspapers. It looks like that's about to end, with the Rocky Mountain News for sale and expected to close right around its 150th birthday. (Here are the stories from the Rocky and from the Post.)

Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin found a bit of painful gallows humor in the topic of his debt-ridden paper's likely demise. He summed up Newspaperland's problems pretty well:

"The problem with newspapers is that technology is passing us by. We're too slow and bulky. You might as well have stone carvings delivered to your doorstep. And while suddenly hip newspapers may now know how to twitter, they have yet to figure out how to make enough money online to support a newsroom."

That's the trick exactly, to make enough money online to support a newsroom. We've got the supply and the demand, but so far we haven't found the dollars.