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Final Edition

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

On February 27, 2009, the Rocky Mountain News printed its last issue after 149 years and 311 days in business, one of the oldest newspapers in the American West to fold in the wave of closures that hit the industry that year. The film follows reporters, editors, and photographers through the newsroom's final weeks, watching them keep producing daily journalism while their jobs disappear under them. Staffers talk through what the paper meant to Denver, the rivalries and friendships built across decades in the building, and the scramble to find new work as print journalism contracts nationwide. Archival front pages and newsroom footage trace the paper's history alongside the financial pressures, collapsing ad revenue, and changing reading habits that made the closure inevitable rather than sudden. The film treats the Rocky Mountain News as one case study in a larger industry collapse, using the specific people who worked there to show what gets lost, institutional memory, local coverage, and jobs, when a newspaper stops printing for good.