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The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and online website published in Denver, Colorado. It is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group. It ranks in the top 50 largest-circulation newspapers in the country, with an average weekday circulation of 254,058.[1] DenverPost.com receives over two million visitors each month. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 334 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (446 × 800 pixel, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The front page of The Denver Post (22nd December 2006) from Newseum This image is of a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the...
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Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1] - City & County 154. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...
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The parent company of The Denver Post is 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 Dec. 1, 1987.
Executives Denver Post publisher William Dean Singleton is vice-chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group, Inc. He founded the company in 1983 with Richard Scudder. MediaNews Group is the nation's fourth largest newspaper company and the largest privately held newspaper concern. William Dean Singleton is founder, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group, the seventh-largest newspaper company in the United States. ...
Since 1989, editors of the Post have included Robert W. Ritter, F. Gilman Spencer, Neil Westergaard, Dennis A. Britton and Glenn Guzzo. The current editor, since 2002, is Gregory L. Moore. [3][4] Gregory L. Moore has been the editor of the Denver Post since June, 2002. ...
Joint Operating Agreement In 2000, the parent companies of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News announced an agreement to combine their business operations. In January, 2001, the plan was approved by the U.S. Justice Department. MediaNews and E.W. Scripps, parent company of the Rocky Mountain News, entered into the joint operating agreement (JOA), creating the Denver Newspaper Agency, which combined the business operations of the newspapers. The newsrooms of The Denver Post and its rival remain independent. The Denver Post is a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ...
The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ...
Edward W. Scripps was a United States publisher and media financier. ...
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. On weekends, they publish a joint broadsheet newspaper on Saturday, produced by the News staff, and a broadsheet on Sunday, produced by The Post staff.
History 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.[2] Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). ...
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, owner of a curio and souvenir shop, and Fredrick 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.[3] On November 3, 1895 the paper's 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.
Among well-known Post reporters were Gene Fowler and "sob sister" Polly Pry. Damon Runyon worked briefly for the Post in 1905-06 before gaining fame as a writer in New York.[5] Gene Fowler was an American journalist, author and dramatist. ...
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Damon Runyon Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. ...
After the deaths of Tammen and Bonfils in 1924 and 1933, Helen and May Bonfils, 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.[6] 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. The Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. ...
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. Samuel Irving Newhouse (1895 - 1979) was a U.S. broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher. ...
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts complex located in Denver, Colorado. ...
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. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
In January, 2001, MediaNews and E.W. Scripps, parent company of the Rocky Mountain News, entered into a joint operating agreement (JOA), creating the Denver Newspaper Agency, which combined the business operations of the former rivals. The newsrooms of the two papers remain independent. Edward W. Scripps was a United States publisher and media financier. ...
The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ...
Awards
Pulitzer Prizes The Denver Post has won five Pulitzer Prizes: - 1964: Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons by Paul Conrad.
- 1967: Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning by Pat Oliphant.
- 1984: Pulitzer Prize for photography by Anthony Suau.
- 1986: Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series on missing children.
- 2000: Pulitzer Prize for its breaking news coverage of the Columbine High School shootings.
Paul Conrad (born 1924), is an editorial cartoonist in the United States. ...
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Recent National and International Awards - 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.
Recent Local Awards - 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.
Mike Keefe is an award-winning editorial cartoonist best known for his work at the Denver Post, for whom he has drawn cartoons since 1975. ...
References - ^ 2006 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2006-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
- ^ Circulation figures include combined Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post for Saturday and Sunday editions.
- ^ New York Times (1989-12-01) Denver Post Picks New Editor
- ^ Editor & Publisher (2002-11-21) Greg Moore's Plans For 'The Denver Post' , http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1765561
- ^ Denver Press Club historical archive, http://www.denverpressclub.org/denverpressclub/archive/people.html
- ^ Bill Hosakawa (1976) Thunder in the Rockies, New York: Morrow.
[1] http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf as of 3/31/07 [2] History of Denver, by Jerome C. Smiley, 1901, page 672. [3] Voice of Empire A Centennial Sketch of The Denver Post, by William H. Hornby, page 8. [4] www.medianewsgroup.com Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
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