The Rocky Mountain News published it’s final edition on February 27, 2009, closing after publishing newspapers for 149 years and 311 days.

I have never read a single printed-copy of The Rocky Mountain News because I have always lived in New York or Maine, but the photograph I will most remember from the newspaper is this one by Todd Heisler:

This was a ground-breaking photograph in my eyes because it showed an aspect of the Iraq War that the United States government was preventing the mainstream media from publishing: that soldiers were being killed in combat.

The picture is part of Heisler’s “Final Salute” that won both a 2006 Pulitzer Prize and First Place in the 63rd Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition.  It is a must-watch.

The moving multimedia piece below shows the final days at The Rocky Mountain news and is worth watching.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

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