As we’ve collectively watched the changes in our economy, one industry that is being hit hard is journalism. Especially hard, for me, is learning of the Rocky Mountain News closing.
I had the opportunity produce a feature about the RMN photojournalism team in one of the most difficult moments of their history: the 1999 shootings on the high school campus at Columbine. That multimedia project, Covering the War At Home was produced in cooperation with other digital pioneers Dirck Halstead and David Snyder and is still live — in its 1999 format — at The Digital Journalist. The RMN coverage of Columbine earned the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2000.
To understand the personal impact of this one paper’s closing, please take 20 minutes to watch:
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo
Thanks for the tips to @osphoto Tom Burton, Orlando Sentinel, and @NPPA Donald Winslow
