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• After losing $43,333 a day in 2008, executives of the Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co. on Thursday closed its Rocky Mountain News newspaper.rnrn …full story

• Each day brings more layoffs at newspapers around the United States. If not sold before March 21, 2009, the doors of the Tucson Citizen will become one of the fatalitiesrn …full story

• Clarity Media Group announced on Thursday plans to close the Baltimore Examiner newspaper and will publish its last edition on February 15th. The Denver-based media group reluctantly concluded that it had to close the publication after several months of unsuccessfully seeking a buyer for the newspaper. Instead, the company will increase investments in other operations.CEO Ryan McKibben met with employees of the Baltimore Examiner on Thursday morning to inform them of the decision. McKibben explained …full story

• SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers Tuesday as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to reverse years of heavy losses.rnIf it can't reduce expenses dramatically within the next few weeks, the Hearst Corp. said it will close or sell the Chronicle, northern California's largest newspaper with a paid weekday circulation of 339,430.rn …full story

• I read with shock last week that the Putnam County Courier, a valuable source of community information, is closing its doors.rnFor 167 years, the Courier has covered politics, wedding anniversaries, school events, awards presented, births, graduations, fundraisers etc. No other paper covered Putnam like the Courier.rnrn …full story

• The Independent, a bi-weekly newspaper based in Hillsdale, N.Y., will publish its last edition Feb. 6.rnThe paper, which was founded in 1973, has been owned for the past eight years by Journal Register Co. (OTC: JRCO). The Trenton, N.J. company, which also owns The Record in Troy, N.Y. and The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, has been struggling financially. It reported a loss of $8.7 million for the third quarter.rnrn …full story

• CARMEL - The Journal Register Company is closing the eight weekly newspapers it operates in the Hudson Valley, including the Putnam County Courier in Carmel.rnThis week's edition will be the papers' last. Seven of the papers cover Dutchess County. The Courier, according to its masthead, has been publishing for 165 years.rnrn …full story

• The closure of the Halifax Daily News this week is making students at P.E.I.'s Holland College nervous about their job prospects on graduation.rnrnAbout two dozen seasoned journalists at the Nova Scotia newspaper were laid off and are now looking for work, and that could potentially have an affect on aspiring reporters from the Holland College journalism program. The fear is all the vacancies in the region will be filled by former Daily News employees.rn …full story

• The Independent, a bi-weekly newspaper based in Hillsdale, N.Y., will publish its last edition Feb. 6.rnrnThe paper, which was founded in 1973, has been owned for the past eight years by Journal Register Co. (OTC: JRCO). The Trenton, N.J. company, which also owns The Record in Troy, N.Y. and The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, has been struggling financially. It reported a loss of $8.7 million for the third quarter.rnrn …full story

• NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst Corp cuts a "significant" number of jobs and decides whether to shut or sell the money-losing daily.rnrnThe privately held New York-based publisher already is considering shutting a second West Coast paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in the face of a devastating decline in advertising revenue and big losses.rn …full story

• The Rocky Mountain News has long been a scrapper: It beat the Cherry Creek Pioneer by 20 minutes to become Denver's first newspaper on April 23, 1859, and it survived an 1864 flood that swept away its building. …full story