Who dunnit?

I've been blogging a lot recently about the Rocky Mountain News, partially out of morbid fascination and partially because I believe that there are some scary parallels between it and the future of some of our own markets.

Denver has a population of just over 500,000 and Colorado a population of just over 5 million, yet the market couldn't support two quality newspapers.

So, who killed The Rocky Mountain News? Was it the internet? In short, yes and no. Or was it massive mismanagement by incompetent ownership, in conjunction with the Internet?

For the long answer, check out John Temple's follow up to his talk in Berkley, which he gave at the 2009 Webcam conference. There's some overlap in content, but it's well worth watching.

Did the Internet kill the Rocky Mountain News? And, if it did, what can we learn from its death? from John Temple on Vimeo.