"Yesterday, union-represented employees of the Denver Post voted to accept a package that includes "wage cuts ranging from 6 percent to 9 percent, depending on salary; higher health-insurance costs; seven days per year of unpaid furloughs; and a suspension of employer contributions to 401(k) retirement accounts," according to an article penned by the Post's Steve Raabe. Total savings: nearly $2 million."

"Multiple inside sources say that the Denver Post has interviewed numerous Rocky Mountain News staffers with an eye toward bringing a handful of Rocky types aboard when and if the tabloid stops publishing. No names have been confirmed at this writing."

"Six major layoffs took place today at the Denver Post, with all of those involved in non-union positions. They are: Stephen Keating, the former editor of the Post's political website, PoliticsWest.com, who will continue to work on a project for Post-owner MediaNews Group; assistant city editor Cynthia Pasquale; assistant design director Ingrid Muller; online director Mark Cardwell; systems editor Erik Strom; and the biggest name of all, managing editor Gary Clark."

"Imagine a world without both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that the recession could drive them both out of business.
The recession and some bad blood. The Denver Post is calling it a "Newspaper War."

It is being reported that while Scripps, which owns the Rocky Mountain News and one half of the Denver Newspaper Agency, was eating $11 million in operating costs last year, The Denver Post was borrowing a similar amount from the DNA to meet its payroll."

"Ever notice how politicians get a lot more forthright when they're out of office? Today's example comes from Cathy Donahue, a former Denver City Council member. In a letter published in today's Rocky Mountain News, Donahue expresses her fondness for the Rocky while at the same time denigrating the Denver Post -- which will be the city's sole newspaper if a buyer for the Rocky isn't found, and soon.

"In mid-December, news broke that MediaNews Group head Dean Singleton asked unions to open negotiations on new contracts early in the hope of saving a combined $20 million at the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency. But, as mentioned parenthetically in a December 16 More Messages blog, this information wasn't reported by the Post. Since then, things have changed on that score, albeit in unexpectedly subtle ways. "

"Rumor and innuendo are the order of the day at the soon-to-be sole surviving, statewide newspaper. Visitors to the politics section of the Denver Post website usually see the latest stories ranked chronologically with major stories sometimes appearing with top billing. If you were to visit the site yesterday, you would see that the Post felt a two-day old story rehashing attacks on Sarah Palin and her child deserved to be at the top."

"The Denver Post comes out against card check this morning... This, coming from a paper whose editorial page never mentioned card check as an issue, and whose campaign coverage rarely mentioned it at all. From an editorial page that repeatedly blamed business for instigating this year's ballot initiatives fight,

Now that Right to Work is safely dead and buried, and now that their candidate - candidates, if one includes Mark Udall - are safely elected, they tell us that it would be in the Democrats' best interests not to reward their largest, most organized constituency."

"Yesterday, multiple sources confirm, managers at the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency learned that their pensions would be frozen beginning on January 1.

"In 2004, the Denver Post gave George W. Bush the most intellectually contorted endorsement imaginable, in part because MediaNews Group head man and Post publisher Dean Singleton, a personal friend of Dubya, more or less big-footed the editorial board into boosting his pal. ("Choice Cut," an October 2004 Message column, tells the tale.) This time around, however, the paper went the other way, opting to back the candidacy of Democrat Barack Obama.