The Denver Post

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The Denver Post
The December 22, 2006 front page of The Denver Post
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	MediaNews Group
Publisher	William Dean Singleton
Editor	Gregory Moore
Founded	1892
Headquarters	101 W. Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80202-5177 United States
Circulation	255,452 Daily^[1] 704,806 Sunday^[2]

Website: denverpost.com

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It was founded in 1892, but had no success competing with the other Denver dailies. Harry Tammen and Frederick Bonfils bought the paper in 1895. Although neither man had any newspaper experience, they quickly turned the paper around with their lively yellow-journalism style.^[3]

Among well-known Post reporters were Gene Fowler and "sob sister" Polly Pry.

The Post continued its scandalmongering style after the deaths of Tammen and Bonfils, until 1946, when their heirs hired Palmer Hoyt away from the Portland Oregonian to become editor of the Post and to give the paper a new and more respectable direction.^[4]

Since 2001 the Post has operated under a joint operating agreement with its longtime rival the Rocky Mountain News. Since 1987, the Post has been owned by MediaNews Group. The current editor is Greg Moore. In 2005, the paper won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for its handling of the anonymity of Kobe Bryant's accuser.

[edit] References

^ 2006 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2006-03-31). Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
^ Circulation figures include combined Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post for Saturday and Sunday editions.
^ Gene Fowler (1933) Timber Line, New York: Ballantine.
^ Bill Hosakawa (1976) Thunder in the Rockies, New York: Morrow.