FAQ’s

Who are you?
Read more about us here. Also, look for profiles of the owners and staff in the coming days.

What will you cover?
We are focused on what’s missing in the coverage of Denver. We live in a beautiful, exciting, growing city where some of the best sports are played and some of the best art is produced. We are the center of the country politically and environmentally, home to vast resources of fossil fuels and vast resources of renewable energy, a state whose political landscape has changed dramatically in a matter of years. We see these things every day, these stories, they are a part of our lives as Coloradans. Yet so much of the news coverage here seems removed from the lives and the city we know. So what will we cover? Denver and the Rocky Mountains, and all that matters most to the people who live here.

But you won’t cover everything?
The reality is that in a city with a daily newspaper, a weekly newspaper, five local television newscasts and an endless stream of radio voices, all of the news seems to be about the same thing wherever you turn, shorter and shorter stories about fewer and fewer topics. The city is too vast, too vibrant, for us always to focus on the same thing that our competitors do.

What does a member get?
1. Join the discussion on all of our stories at the Rocky Mountain Independent.
2. Access to staff journals featuring exclusive content.
3. Receive access to other “premium” content on the site.
4. Enjoy the Web site with limited advertising in stories.

Why online and not print?
Our careers started in print, and we would not be here today had we not lost a print newspaper dear to hearts. We continue to investigate a print format and one day soon hope to produce a print edition of the Rocky Mountain Independent. But we are a small group of independent journalists, and the overhead associated with print is too much at this time.