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The Denver Post

February 15, 2024

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website published in Denver, Colorado. As of June 2022, it has an average print circulation of 57,265.[2] In 2016, its website received roughly six million monthly unique visitors generating more than 13 million page views, according to comScore.[3]

The Denver Post
The May 2, 2011 front page of The Denver Post, with headline reporting the killing of Osama bin Laden
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Digital First Media
EditorLee Ann Colacioppo
Founded1892
HeadquartersDenver, Colorado
CountryUnited States
Circulation57,265 Average print circulation[1]
ISSN1930-2193
OCLC number8789877
Websitedenverpost.com

Ownership edit

Main article: MediaNews Group

The Post was the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews bought The Denver Post from the Times Mirror Co. on December 1, 1987. Times Mirror had bought the paper from the heirs of founder Frederick Gilmer Bonfils in 1980.

Since 2010, The Denver Post has been owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which acquired its bankrupt parent company, MediaNews Group.[4] In April 2018, a group called "Together for Colorado Springs" said that it was raising money to buy the Post from Alden Global Capital, stating: “Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom.”[5]

History edit

 
The newspaper's former building & newsroom in downtown Denver

In August 1892, The Evening Post was founded by supporters of Grover Cleveland with $50,000. It was a Democratic paper used to publicize political ideals and stem the number of Colorado Democrats leaving the party. Cleveland had been nominated for president because of his reputation for honest government.

However, Cleveland and eastern Democrats opposed government purchase of silver, Colorado's most important product, which made Cleveland unpopular in the state. Following the bust of silver prices in 1893, the country and Colorado went into a depression and The Evening Post suspended publication in August 1893.

A new group of owners with similar political ambitions raised $100,000 and resurrected the paper in June 1894. On October 28, 1895, Harry Heye Tammen, former bartender[6] and owner of a curio and souvenir shop, and Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, a Kansas City real estate and lottery operator, purchased the Evening Post for $12,500. Neither had newspaper experience, but they were adept at the business of promotion and finding out what people wanted to read.

Through the use of sensationalism, editorialism, and "flamboyant circus journalism", a new era began for the Post. Circulation grew and eventually passed the other three daily papers combined. On November 3, 1895 the paper's was name changed to Denver Evening Post. On January 1, 1901 the word "Evening" was dropped from the name and the paper became The Denver Post.

20th and early 21st centuries edit

Among well-known Post reporters were Gene Fowler, Frances Belford Wayne, and "sob sister" Polly Pry. Damon Runyon worked briefly for the Post in 1905–1906 before gaining fame as a writer in New York.[7]

After the deaths of Tammen and Bonfils in 1924 and 1933, Helen and May Bonfils Stanton, Bonfils' daughters, became the principal owners of the Post. In 1946, the Post hired Palmer Hoyt away from the Portland Oregonian to become editor and publisher of the Post and to give the paper a new direction.[8][9] With Hoyt in charge, news was reported fairly and accurately. He took editorial comment out of the stories and put it on an editorial page. He called the page The Open Forum and it continues today.

In 1960, there was a takeover attempt by publishing mogul Samuel I. Newhouse. Helen Bonfils brought in her friend and lawyer Donald Seawell to save the paper. The fight led to a series of lawsuits as Post management struggled to maintain local ownership. It lasted 13 years and drained the paper financially. When Helen Bonfils died in 1972, Seawell was named president and chairman of the board. He was also head of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). The Center was established and financed primarily by the Frederick G. and Helen G. Bonfils foundations, with aid from city funds. The majority of the assets of the foundations came from Post stock dividends.

By 1980, the paper was losing money. Critics accused Seawell of being preoccupied with building up the DCPA. Seawell sold the Post to the Times Mirror Co. of California for $95 million. Proceeds went to the Bonfils Foundation, securing the financial future of the DCPA. Times Mirror started morning publication and delivery. Circulation improved, but the paper did not perform as well as required. Times Mirror sold The Denver Post to Dean Singleton and MediaNews Group in 1987.

In January 2001, MediaNews and E.W. Scripps, parent company of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News, entered into a joint operating agreement (JOA), creating the Denver Newspaper Agency, which combined the business operations of the former rivals. Under the agreement, the newsrooms of the two newspapers agreed to publish separate morning editions Monday through Friday, with the Post retaining a broadsheet format and the News using a tabloid format.

They published a joint broadsheet newspaper on Saturday, produced by the News staff, and a broadsheet on Sunday, produced by the Post staff. Both newspapers' editorial pages appeared in both weekend papers. The JOA ended on February 27, 2009, when the Rocky Mountain News published its last issue. The following day, the Post published its first Saturday issue since 2001.

The Post launched a staff expansion program in 2001, but declining advertising revenue led to a reduction of the newsroom staff in 2006 and 2007 through layoffs, early-retirement packages, voluntary-separation buyouts and attrition. The most recent round of announced buyouts occurred in June 2016.[10][11][12]

In 2013, just before legalization in Colorado, The Denver Post initiated an online media brand The Cannabist to cover cannabis-related issues.[13] First led by Editor in Chief Ricardo Baca, the online publication has surged in popularity, beating the industry veteran High Times in September 2016.[14] Thirty layoffs were announced for The Post in March 2018, according to the Denver Business Journal.[15]

Management by Digital First Media edit

On September 7, 2011, John Paton – the CEO of Journal Register Company – was appointed CEO of MediaNews Group,[16] replacing Singleton, who stayed on as the Post's publisher and CEO of MediaNews until his retirement in 2013.[17] He remains non-executive chairman of the organization. With the move, the Post also entered into an agreement with the newly created Digital First Media, led by Paton, that would provide management services and lead the execution of the company's business strategy in conjunction with Journal Register. Paton stepped down as CEO of Digital First in June 2015, and was succeeded by longtime MediaNews executive Steve Rossi.[18]

In the same announcement, the company said that it would no longer be seeking a sale.

In 2017, The Denver Post announced that its headquarters were moving to its printing plant in North Washington, Adams County.[19]

Newsroom cuts and criticism edit

The operation of The Denver Post by Digital First Media, under the ownership of Alden Global Capital, has come under extensive criticism from workers at the newspaper and outside the organization.[20] The hedge fund has made "relentless cost cuts" since taking ownership in 2010, despite the reported profitability of the Post, principally by laying off the newspaper's staff. Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post called Alden Global Capital "one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism."[21] Under Digital Media First, the number of journalists in the newsroom was reduced by almost two-thirds by April 2018, to around 70 people.[22] This represents a drastic fall from the over 250 journalists which The Denver Post employed before 2010, when it was purchased by Alden Media Group.[23] At one point before 2009, the joint-operating agreement between The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News boasted a 600-strong staff of journalists, before the bankruptcy of the Rocky Mountain News that year.[21]

The announcement of 30 more layoffs in March 2018, which reduced the paper's newsroom from 100 to around 70 people, prompted a denunciation of its owners from the editorial board of The Denver Post. The editorial decried Alden Global Capital as "vulture capitalists" who were "strip-mining" the newspaper; it concluded that "Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom. If Alden isn't willing to do good journalism here, it should sell the Post to owners who will."[21] The editorial board pointed out that the cuts were hamstringing the ability of the Post to provide quality coverage of the fast-growing Denver region, and compared the size of its newsroom unfavorably to those of other newspapers in cities of comparable or smaller size to Denver.[23] Alden's "harvesting strategy" is what prompted Greg Moore, editor of The Denver Post from 2002 to 2016, to step down.[21]

The "open revolt" of the Denver Post against its owners garnered support and praise from other newspapers and journalists, including Mitchell Landsberg of the Los Angeles Times and Joe Nocera of Bloomberg View.[22]

In 2020, a documentary, News Matters, was released that follows the bold attempt by Colorado journalists to save the 125-year-old Denver Post while the hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital slowly drains profits from the paper and dismissing journalists.[24]

Controversies edit

In February 2014, The Denver Post began publishing a section entitled "Energy and Environment", funded by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED), a pro–natural gas group. The stories in the section are written by outsiders, not by DP reporters. A banner across the top of the section reads "This Section is Sponsored by CRED". Nevertheless, critics express concern that the section risks confusing readers about the distinction between advertising and reporting.[25]

Another controversy arose in late January 2020, when Jon Caldara of the Denver-based Independence Institute, who had long written a weekly column for the Denver Post, was fired after publishing two conservative articles on sex and gender.[26][27] In a column arguing for greater openness in public affairs, excoriating the Colorado legislature for avoiding the legally required referendum on a new state tax by repackaging it as a “fee” — and then prohibiting hospitals from listing the fee on patients’ bills. On the same theme, he criticized the state’s educational authorities for imposing a speech code forbidding speech considered “stigmatizing”. “In case you hadn’t noticed,” he wrote, “just about everything is stigmatizing to the easily triggered, perpetually offended.” Continuing on his theme of transparency, he also complained that the schools were not doing enough to make parents aware of the contents of their sex-ed curricula. While Caldara believes his "insistence" on the existence of only two sexes was "the last straw" for his column, he emphasizes "the reason for my firing is over a difference in style."[28] He was officially fired for failing to use "respectful language" and the lack of a "collaborative and professional manner."[29]

Editors edit

Editors of the Post have included:

Notable columnists edit

Former columnists include Otto Floto and Woody Paige[33] in sports, Tom Noel[34] on local history, Mike Rosen on the commentary page. Other columnists included David Harsanyi,[35] Al Lewis,[36] Mike Littwin,[37] Penny Parker[38] and Michael Kane[39].[citation needed]

Awards edit

Pulitzer Prizes edit

The Denver Post has won nine Pulitzer Prizes:[40]

References not listed below can be found on the linked pages.

National and international awards edit

  • 2015: Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of Colorado's marijuana laws.
  • 2007: Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for The Denver Post's coverage of Colorado's back-to-back blizzards.
  • 2007: Four awards for outstanding business coverage from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). The project-reporting winner was the Post's 2006 series on Colorado's mortgage foreclosure epidemic, "Foreclosing on the American Dream".
  • 2007: Former Post staff writer Eric Gorski was awarded first place in "Best of the West" contest in the Business and Financial Reporting category for "The Gospel of Prosperity", a look at the finances of the Heritage Christian Center.
  • 2007: Visual journalists at The Post won 10 awards in two international newspaper competitions – nine Awards of Excellence in the 28th annual Society of News Design judging and a bronze medal in the 15th annual Malofiej International Infographic Awards, held in Pamplona, Spain.
  • Radio Television Digital News Association's Edward R. Murrow awards, including Lindsay Pierce/“Kailyn’s Spirit” in 2016,[43] three in 2015.[44]

Local/regional awards edit

  • 2007: The Denver Post won 22 top awards in two Colorado journalism contests, including the award for general excellence from the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters (CAPER). The staff of denverpost.com was awarded top honors for online breaking news.
  • 2007: The Mountain States Office of the Anti-Defamation League presented Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe with its annual Freedom of the Press award.
  • 2013: The Carson J Spencer Foundation "Media All-Star" award for responsible reporting on suicide.[45]

References edit

  1. ^ Turvill, William (2022-06-24). "Top 25 US newspaper circulations: Print sales fall another 12% in 2022". Press Gazette. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ Turvill, William (June 24, 2022). "Top 25 US newspaper circulations: Print sales fall another 12% in 2022". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. ^ Petty, Daniel (May 17, 2016). "Denver Post unique visitors jump to 6.01 million, up 65 percent year-over-year". The Denver Post. from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  4. ^ Ember, Sydney (April 7, 2018). "Denver Post Rebels Against Its Hedge-Fund Ownership". The New York Times. from the original on April 8, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  5. ^ Ember, Sydney (April 12, 2018). "Colorado Group Pushes to Buy Embattled Denver Post From New York Hedge Fund". The New York Times. from the original on April 14, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  6. ^ McCartney, Laton (2008). The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. Random House. p. 124. ISBN 9781400063161.
  7. ^ McClanahan, Michael D. (1999). . Denver Press Club Historical Archive. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved June 20, 2007.
  8. ^ Riley, Marilyn Griggs (2006). High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women. Big Earth Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 978-1555663759.
  9. ^ Hosokawa, Bill (1976). Thunder in the Rockies: The Incredible Denver Post. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0688029736.
  10. ^ Roberts, Michael (April 27, 2006). "Dealing: The Post offers staffers money to leave". Westword. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  11. ^ . Editor & Publisher. Associated Press. June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
  12. ^ "Denver Post Cutting Staff". 9 News. June 4, 2016. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  13. ^ Opam, Kwame (December 31, 2013). "The Denver Post launches marijuana culture site The Cannabist". The Verge. from the original on June 26, 2018.
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  15. ^ Hendee, Caitlin; Avery, Greg (March 14, 2018). "Massive job cuts coming to the Denver Post". Denver Business Journal. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  16. ^ Pankratz, Howard (September 7, 2011). "MediaNews Group names John Paton new CEO". The Denver Post. from the original on December 13, 2018.
  17. ^ Raabe, Steve (November 4, 2013). "Singleton to retire from Denver Post owner MediaNews Group". The Denver Post. from the original on June 26, 2019.
  18. ^ "Denver Post parent says now is not right time for sale of company". The Denver Post. May 14, 2015. from the original on June 30, 2016.
  19. ^ Roberts, Michael (May 9, 2017). "Denver Post Moving Newsroom Out of Denver". Westword. from the original on May 12, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  20. ^ Sydney Ember (2018-04-12). "Colorado Group Pushes to Buy Embattled Denver Post from New York Hedge Fund". New York Times. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  21. ^ a b c d Margaret Sullivan (2018-03-15). "Is this strip-mining or journalism? 'Sobs, gasps, expletives' over latest Denver Post layoffs". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  22. ^ a b Dominique Mosbergen (2018-04-06). "In an Extraordinary Act of Defiance, Denver Post Urges its Owner to Sell the Paper". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  23. ^ a b Denver Post Editorial Board (2018-04-06). "Editorial: As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved". Denver Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  24. ^ News Matters (film). Fast Forward Films, LLC. 2020.
  25. ^ Valentine, Katie (April 16, 2014). "The Denver Post's 'Energy And Environment' Section Is Produced By The Oil And Gas Industry". ThinkProgress. from the original on June 11, 2019.
  26. ^ Caldara, Jon (January 17, 2020). "Caldara: Colorado Dems should let sun shine on their hospital fees and sex-ed curriculum". The Denver Post.
  27. ^ Caldara, Jon (January 3, 2020). "Caldara: The media's progressive bias has a propaganda guide — The AP Stylebook". The Denver Post.
  28. ^ Caldara, Jon (January 20, 2020). "Here's the column that got me fired from the Denver Post". Think Freedom.
  29. ^ Colacioppo, Lee Ann (January 21, 2020). "Editor's note on the discontinuation of Jon Caldara's column". The Denver Post.
  30. ^ a b "Denver Post Picks New Editor". The New York Times. Associated Press. December 1, 1989. from the original on December 20, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
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  33. ^ "Woody Paige". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  34. ^ "Tom Noel". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  35. ^ "David Harsanyi". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  36. ^ "Al Lewis". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  37. ^ "Mike Littwin". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  38. ^ "Penny Parker". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  39. ^ GAME BOYS: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time by Michael Kane - IGN, retrieved 2021-08-19
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  41. ^ Cavna, Michael (April 18, 2011). "The Pulitzers: Denver's Mike Keefe wins for Editorial Cartooning". The Washington Post. from the original on February 3, 2012.
  42. ^ Peltz, Jennifer (April 16, 2013). . 3 News. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016.
  43. ^ Ostrow, Joanne; Worthington, Danika (June 21, 2016). "Denver Post videographer Lindsay Pierce wins National Murrow Award for "Kailyn's Spirit"". The Denver Post. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  44. ^ "Denver Post takes home 3 national Murrow Awards". The Denver Post. October 14, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  45. ^ "Denver Post receives Media All-Star award for responsible reporting on suicide". August 23, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved May 9, 2018 – via YouTube.

Further reading edit

  • History of Denver, by Jerome C. Smiley, 1901, page 672.
  • Voice of Empire: A Centennial Sketch of The Denver Post, by William H. Hornby, page 8.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Denver Post.
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The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website published in Denver Colorado As of June 2022 update it has an average print circulation of 57 265 2 In 2016 its website received roughly six million monthly unique visitors generating more than 13 million page views according to comScore 3 The Denver PostThe May 2 2011 front page of The Denver Post with headline reporting the killing of Osama bin LadenTypeDaily newspaperFormatBroadsheetOwner s Digital First MediaEditorLee Ann ColacioppoFounded1892HeadquartersDenver ColoradoCountryUnited StatesCirculation57 265 Average print circulation 1 ISSN1930 2193OCLC number8789877Websitedenverpost wbr comMedia of the United StatesList of newspapers Contents 1 Ownership 2 History 2 1 20th and early 21st centuries 2 2 Management by Digital First Media 2 3 Newsroom cuts and criticism 3 Controversies 4 Editors 5 Notable columnists 6 Awards 6 1 Pulitzer Prizes 6 2 National and international awards 6 3 Local regional awards 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksOwnership editMain article MediaNews Group The Post was the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder MediaNews is today one of the nation s largest newspaper chains publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non daily publications in 13 states MediaNews bought The Denver Post from the Times Mirror Co on December 1 1987 Times Mirror had bought the paper from the heirs of founder Frederick Gilmer Bonfils in 1980 Since 2010 The Denver Post has been owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital which acquired its bankrupt parent company MediaNews Group 4 In April 2018 a group called Together for Colorado Springs said that it was raising money to buy the Post from Alden Global Capital stating Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom 5 History edit nbsp The newspaper s former building amp newsroom in downtown DenverIn August 1892 The Evening Post was founded by supporters of Grover Cleveland with 50 000 It was a Democratic paper used to publicize political ideals and stem the number of Colorado Democrats leaving the party Cleveland had been nominated for president because of his reputation for honest government However Cleveland and eastern Democrats opposed government purchase of silver Colorado s most important product which made Cleveland unpopular in the state Following the bust of silver prices in 1893 the country and Colorado went into a depression and The Evening Post suspended publication in August 1893 A new group of owners with similar political ambitions raised 100 000 and resurrected the paper in June 1894 On October 28 1895 Harry Heye Tammen former bartender 6 and owner of a curio and souvenir shop and Frederick Gilmer Bonfils a Kansas City real estate and lottery operator purchased the Evening Post for 12 500 Neither had newspaper experience but they were adept at the business of promotion and finding out what people wanted to read Through the use of sensationalism editorialism and flamboyant circus journalism a new era began for the Post Circulation grew and eventually passed the other three daily papers combined On November 3 1895 the paper s was name changed to Denver Evening Post On January 1 1901 the word Evening was dropped from the name and the paper became The Denver Post 20th and early 21st centuries edit Among well known Post reporters were Gene Fowler Frances Belford Wayne and sob sister Polly Pry Damon Runyon worked briefly for the Post in 1905 1906 before gaining fame as a writer in New York 7 After the deaths of Tammen and Bonfils in 1924 and 1933 Helen and May Bonfils Stanton Bonfils daughters became the principal owners of the Post In 1946 the Post hired Palmer Hoyt away from the Portland Oregonian to become editor and publisher of the Post and to give the paper a new direction 8 9 With Hoyt in charge news was reported fairly and accurately He took editorial comment out of the stories and put it on an editorial page He called the page The Open Forum and it continues today In 1960 there was a takeover attempt by publishing mogul Samuel I Newhouse Helen Bonfils brought in her friend and lawyer Donald Seawell to save the paper The fight led to a series of lawsuits as Post management struggled to maintain local ownership It lasted 13 years and drained the paper financially When Helen Bonfils died in 1972 Seawell was named president and chairman of the board He was also head of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts DCPA The Center was established and financed primarily by the Frederick G and Helen G Bonfils foundations with aid from city funds The majority of the assets of the foundations came from Post stock dividends By 1980 the paper was losing money Critics accused Seawell of being preoccupied with building up the DCPA Seawell sold the Post to the Times Mirror Co of California for 95 million Proceeds went to the Bonfils Foundation securing the financial future of the DCPA Times Mirror started morning publication and delivery Circulation improved but the paper did not perform as well as required Times Mirror sold The Denver Post to Dean Singleton and MediaNews Group in 1987 In January 2001 MediaNews and E W Scripps parent company of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News entered into a joint operating agreement JOA creating the Denver Newspaper Agency which combined the business operations of the former rivals Under the agreement the newsrooms of the two newspapers agreed to publish separate morning editions Monday through Friday with the Post retaining a broadsheet format and the News using a tabloid format They published a joint broadsheet newspaper on Saturday produced by the News staff and a broadsheet on Sunday produced by the Post staff Both newspapers editorial pages appeared in both weekend papers The JOA ended on February 27 2009 when the Rocky Mountain News published its last issue The following day the Post published its first Saturday issue since 2001 The Post launched a staff expansion program in 2001 but declining advertising revenue led to a reduction of the newsroom staff in 2006 and 2007 through layoffs early retirement packages voluntary separation buyouts and attrition The most recent round of announced buyouts occurred in June 2016 10 11 12 In 2013 just before legalization in Colorado The Denver Post initiated an online media brand The Cannabist to cover cannabis related issues 13 First led by Editor in Chief Ricardo Baca the online publication has surged in popularity beating the industry veteran High Times in September 2016 14 Thirty layoffs were announced for The Post in March 2018 according to the Denver Business Journal 15 Management by Digital First Media edit On September 7 2011 John Paton the CEO of Journal Register Company was appointed CEO of MediaNews Group 16 replacing Singleton who stayed on as the Post s publisher and CEO of MediaNews until his retirement in 2013 17 He remains non executive chairman of the organization With the move the Post also entered into an agreement with the newly created Digital First Media led by Paton that would provide management services and lead the execution of the company s business strategy in conjunction with Journal Register Paton stepped down as CEO of Digital First in June 2015 and was succeeded by longtime MediaNews executive Steve Rossi 18 In the same announcement the company said that it would no longer be seeking a sale In 2017 The Denver Post announced that its headquarters were moving to its printing plant in North Washington Adams County 19 Newsroom cuts and criticism edit The operation of The Denver Post by Digital First Media under the ownership of Alden Global Capital has come under extensive criticism from workers at the newspaper and outside the organization 20 The hedge fund has made relentless cost cuts since taking ownership in 2010 despite the reported profitability of the Post principally by laying off the newspaper s staff Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post called Alden Global Capital one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism 21 Under Digital Media First the number of journalists in the newsroom was reduced by almost two thirds by April 2018 to around 70 people 22 This represents a drastic fall from the over 250 journalists which The Denver Post employed before 2010 when it was purchased by Alden Media Group 23 At one point before 2009 the joint operating agreement between The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News boasted a 600 strong staff of journalists before the bankruptcy of the Rocky Mountain News that year 21 The announcement of 30 more layoffs in March 2018 which reduced the paper s newsroom from 100 to around 70 people prompted a denunciation of its owners from the editorial board of The Denver Post The editorial decried Alden Global Capital as vulture capitalists who were strip mining the newspaper it concluded that Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom If Alden isn t willing to do good journalism here it should sell the Post to owners who will 21 The editorial board pointed out that the cuts were hamstringing the ability of the Post to provide quality coverage of the fast growing Denver region and compared the size of its newsroom unfavorably to those of other newspapers in cities of comparable or smaller size to Denver 23 Alden s harvesting strategy is what prompted Greg Moore editor of The Denver Post from 2002 to 2016 to step down 21 The open revolt of the Denver Post against its owners garnered support and praise from other newspapers and journalists including Mitchell Landsberg of the Los Angeles Times and Joe Nocera of Bloomberg View 22 In 2020 a documentary News Matters was released that follows the bold attempt by Colorado journalists to save the 125 year old Denver Post while the hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital slowly drains profits from the paper and dismissing journalists 24 Controversies editIn February 2014 The Denver Post began publishing a section entitled Energy and Environment funded by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development CRED a pro natural gas group The stories in the section are written by outsiders not by DP reporters A banner across the top of the section reads This Section is Sponsored by CRED Nevertheless critics express concern that the section risks confusing readers about the distinction between advertising and reporting 25 Another controversy arose in late January 2020 when Jon Caldara of the Denver based Independence Institute who had long written a weekly column for the Denver Post was fired after publishing two conservative articles on sex and gender 26 27 In a column arguing for greater openness in public affairs excoriating the Colorado legislature for avoiding the legally required referendum on a new state tax by repackaging it as a fee and then prohibiting hospitals from listing the fee on patients bills On the same theme he criticized the state s educational authorities for imposing a speech code forbidding speech considered stigmatizing In case you hadn t noticed he wrote just about everything is stigmatizing to the easily triggered perpetually offended Continuing on his theme of transparency he also complained that the schools were not doing enough to make parents aware of the contents of their sex ed curricula While Caldara believes his insistence on the existence of only two sexes was the last straw for his column he emphasizes the reason for my firing is over a difference in style 28 He was officially fired for failing to use respectful language and the lack of a collaborative and professional manner 29 Editors editEditors of the Post have included Arnold Miller Robert W Ritter 1989 30 F Gilman Spencer 30 Neil Westergaard Dennis A Britton Glenn Guzzo Gregory L Moore 2002 2016 31 Lee Ann Colacioppo 2016 present 32 Notable columnists editFormer columnists include Otto Floto and Woody Paige 33 in sports Tom Noel 34 on local history Mike Rosen on the commentary page Other columnists included David Harsanyi 35 Al Lewis 36 Mike Littwin 37 Penny Parker 38 and Michael Kane 39 citation needed Awards editPulitzer Prizes edit The Denver Post has won nine Pulitzer Prizes 40 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Paul Conrad 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Pat Oliphant 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography by Anthony Suau 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series on missing children 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Columbine High School massacre 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography by Craig F Walker 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Mike Keefe 41 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography by Craig F Walker 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the 2012 Aurora Colorado shooting 42 References not listed below can be found on the linked pages National and international awards edit 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of Colorado s marijuana laws 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for The Denver Post s coverage of Colorado s back to back blizzards 2007 Four awards for outstanding business coverage from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers SABEW The project reporting winner was the Post s 2006 series on Colorado s mortgage foreclosure epidemic Foreclosing on the American Dream 2007 Former Post staff writer Eric Gorski was awarded first place in Best of the West contest in the Business and Financial Reporting category for The Gospel of Prosperity a look at the finances of the Heritage Christian Center 2007 Visual journalists at The Post won 10 awards in two international newspaper competitions nine Awards of Excellence in the 28th annual Society of News Design judging and a bronze medal in the 15th annual Malofiej International Infographic Awards held in Pamplona Spain Radio Television Digital News Association s Edward R Murrow awards including Lindsay Pierce Kailyn s Spirit in 2016 43 three in 2015 44 Local regional awards edit 2007 The Denver Post won 22 top awards in two Colorado journalism contests including the award for general excellence from the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters CAPER The staff of denverpost com was awarded top honors for online breaking news 2007 The Mountain States Office of the Anti Defamation League presented Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe with its annual Freedom of the Press award 2013 The Carson J Spencer Foundation Media All Star award for responsible reporting on suicide 45 References edit Turvill William 2022 06 24 Top 25 US newspaper circulations Print sales fall another 12 in 2022 Press Gazette Retrieved 2024 01 11 Turvill William June 24 2022 Top 25 US newspaper circulations Print sales fall another 12 in 2022 Press Gazette Retrieved 28 June 2022 Petty Daniel May 17 2016 Denver Post unique visitors jump to 6 01 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