The parent company of the Rocky Mountain News says it is finalizing agreements with the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society to become stewards of the archives and artifacts of the shuttered newspaper.
The E.W. Scripps Co. says the library would assume ownership of the newspaper’s digital and paper clipping files, microfilm reels, digital and photographic files, and marketing materials and correspondence. The Historical Society would take other artifacts like signs, photographs, special editions, and other historical documents.
The E.W. Scripps Co. closed the Rocky Mountain News after its Feb. 27 edition, citing losses that reached $16 million last year. The closure came just months before the newspaper’s 150th anniversary.
