Subscribers who have seven-day delivery of The Post will get the Saturday News. The goal of both papers will be to produce very complete, very entertaining and compelling newspapers that will satisfy the readers."
Scripps and the News are "not resigned to the fact that Saturday will be a weak franchise," Horton said. "It's logical to assume some of the local features now published Sunday will move to Saturday or some other day," he said. But it hasn't been decided yet."įans of Sunday News features such as Wall Street West or Home Front may find those sections in Saturday's paper, or in another day of the week, Horton said. "We like the name 'Rocky Mountain News,' and I think that's what most people know it by. Horton, Scripps' senior vice president for newspapers. However, the word "Denver," which was added to the Rocky Mountain News for national advertising purposes in October 1998. On Sunday, The Denver Post flag will be prominent, with "and Denver Rocky Mountain News" in small type underneath that.
On Saturdays, the nameplate of the paper will say Denver Rocky Mountain News, with "and The Denver Post," in small type underneath. It will also include a Post editorial page. The Saturday Denver Rocky Mountain News, which will be published in the broadsheet style of The Post, will include "certain features from The Post that The Post chooses to put in," said Singleton. It will also include an editorial page from the News, and some syndicated features from the News, which haven't been determined yet. "The Sunday Post will be The Post as everyone knows it," said Singleton. The Saturday edition edited by the News will also have a combined comics section. Scripps Co., parent of the News, will each contribute two people to a four-member management committee to oversee operations of the agency.īut enough about business, back to the comics: The Sunday comics section will include those currently in The Post, as well as the News, said William Dean Singleton, chairman of the Denver Newspaper Agency board and president and chief executive of MediaNews Group Inc. MediaNews Group Inc., The Post's parent company, and E.W. "We have employees who don't quite get it."īusiness functions such as circulation and advertising will be combined and handled by a new company, the Denver Newspaper Agency. "People will think it's a merger," said Sizemore. I've given up," said Mason Sizemore, president of the Seattle Times Co., which has been in a JOA with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1983. "Good luck trying to make the community understand the JOA. Except on weekends, when it will look as if the two are publishing together.
Profits are shared, yet the two newspapers' editorial staffs remain separate and competitive. Each newspaper will publish as usual during the rest of the week.Ī main challenge for executives and editors of the newspapers, say those who have lived through the formation of JOAs in other cities, is to convince readers that the two newspapers' well-defined voices will not disappear.Ī joint operating agreement for newspapers, allowed under the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, is unlike any other business animal.
That day could be coming soon if, as expected, Attorney General Janet Reno stamps her OK on the pact that creates the nation's 18th newspaper joint operating agreement.Īs part of the JOA, the Denver Rocky Mountain News will publish the Saturday paper, and The Denver Post will print the Sunday edition. That's one of a few executive decisions already made to prepare for the brave new world when Denver becomes a one-newspaper town on the weekends. When the Sunday Denver Rocky Mountain News ceases to exist, its beloved comics section will live on in The Sunday Denver Post.
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