The Rocky Mountain News closed its doors in Denver, Colorado on 27 February 2009. So what's happened to its journalists in the past two years?
John Temple, the paper's former editor, president and publisher, has been finding out. Some 146 of the 194 former staff responded to his survey.
Most depressing finding: 98 (67%) said they were earning less today than they made at the Rocky, with 56 of the 98 saying their income was "much less." Only 27 (18) said they were making more - and most of them were not working in journalism.
Most surprising finding: despite the general decline in income, roughly the same amount of people reported that their life was better today than that it was worse.
Other findings: 92 are working as journalists. Of those, 44 said they are at newspapers (though some work online), and 64 of them earn less money.
More can be gleaned from the stories of Rocky journalists still working as journalists, and the stories of Rocky journalists who left the profession.
Source: John Temple
