{"product_id":"last-paper-standing-a-century-of-competition-between-the-denver-post-and-the-rocky-mountain-news-9781646425051","title":"Last Paper Standing: A Century of Competition Between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News","description":"\u003ci\u003eLast Paper Standing\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the history of competition between the \u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e--from both newspapers' origins to their joint operating agreement in 2001 to the death of the \u003ci\u003eNews\u003c\/i\u003e in 2009--to tell a broader story about the decline of newspaper readership in the United States. The papers fought for dominance in the lucrative Denver newspaper market for more than a century, enduring vigorous competition in pursuit of monopoly control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This frequently sensational, sometimes outlandish, and occasionally bloody battle spanned numerous eras of journalism, embodying the rise and fall of the newspaper industry during the twentieth century in the lead up to the fall of American newspapering. Drawing on manuscript collections scattered across the United States as well as oral histories with executives, managers, and journalists from the papers, Ken J. Ward investigates the strategies employed in their competition with one another and against other challenges, such as widespread economic uncertainty and the deterioration of the newspaper industry. He follows this competition through the death of the \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e in 2009, which ended the country's last great newspaper war and marked the close of the golden age of Denver journalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fake news runs rampant in the absence of high-quality news sources like the \u003ci\u003eNews\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e of the past. Neither canonizing nor vilifying key characters, \u003ci\u003eLast Paper Standing\u003c\/i\u003e offers insight into the historical context that led these papers' managers to their changing strategies over time. It is of interest to media and business historians, as well as anyone interested in the general history of journalism, Denver, and Colorado. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen J. Ward\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of multimedia journalism at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, and a former reporter for the \u003ci\u003eMcPherson Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e. His research has appeared in \u003ci\u003eJournalism History\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Media Law and Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Journal of Media Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has received the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Warren Price Award and the American Journalism Historians Association's Robert Lance Memorial Award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488934007058,"sku":"9781646425051","price":56.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3728bf03-a95e-4432-96a4-21147d599fd7.jpg?v=1730485692","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-paper-standing-a-century-of-competition-between-the-denver-post-and-the-rocky-mountain-news-9781646425051","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}