The Rocky Mountain News, which began publication in April 1859 on Cherry Creek (later Denver), in the Kansas Territory (later Colorado), folded, two months before its sesquicentennial.(The Week)(Brief article)

The Rocky Mountain News, which began publication in April 1859 on Cherry Creek (later Denver), in the Kansas Territory (later Colorado), folded, two months before its sesquicentennial. The Rocky was an increasingly rare thing among daily newspapers, a feisty conservative voice. Not rare is its fate as we witness a die-off of print, like the extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Era. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Inquirer and Daily News of Philadelphia, have all gone bankrupt; the San Francisco Chronicle looks to be next. Technology is killing them, as ads and readers go online, ...