The Aspen Daily News is a 7-day-a-week newspaper in the ski resort of Aspen, Colorado that started in 1978.
12-425: In 1978, Dave Danforth , then working as a stringer for The Denver Post and some national publications, began printing up a one-sheet "missive" and distributing 2,000 copies around Aspen. "It was typewritten, both sides, with a little band of ads one inch high, a free handout," former Aspen journalist Andy Stone recalls. "He had a taste and a flair for sensational journalism." The newspaper, which soon converted to
24-602: A 2013 lawsuit accused Danforth of withholding funds from accounts tied to a building he owned with a fellow business partner. In 2015, the newspaper moved to 2,000 square feet of offices in a building on Main Street where the Stage 3 movie theater once stood. In 2017, Dave Danforth sold the paper to a former manager and local investors. This article about a Colorado newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dave Danforth (publisher) Dave Danforth
36-485: A police officer more favorable news coverage. Later in 2010, Danforth received a summons in the early morning of Oct. 9 for trespassing after he and a clerk at a local gas station allegedly argued about the tax on the purchase of a newspaper. "Police said he refused to leave the Locals Corner store around 2 a.m. when asked repeatedly by the worker and responding officers," the competing newspaper reported. Separately,
48-411: A tabloid format on traditional newsprint, has had a competition over decades with The Aspen Times , founded as a daily in 1881 before converting to a weekly in the 1920s. In the face of The News ' incursion, The Times introduced a daily edition beginning in 1988; as of 2016, The Times continues to publish daily. The News proudly embraces its position as a muckraking, investigative newspaper with
60-680: Is a free newspaper in Palo Alto, California , founded in 2008 by the Palo Alto Daily News 's founders, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who had sold that paper to new owners three years earlier. The Post is published Monday-Saturday and distributed in more than a dozen communities on the San Francisco Peninsula . The paper covers local news and carries reports from the Associated Press . The Post
72-580: Is an American publisher and newspaper owner. In the United States, he pioneered micro-daily newspapers beginning in the late 1970s, including Colorado's Aspen Daily News . In 1978, Danforth, a Yale University dropout who later returned to graduate from the Ivy League school, then working as a stringer for The Denver Post and for some national publications, began printing up a one-sheet "missive" and distributing 2,000 copies around Aspen. "It
84-610: The 1920s. In the face of The News ' incursion, The Times introduced a daily edition beginning in 1988; as of 2016, The Times continues to publish daily. Danforth sold the Daily News in 2017. In 1989, Danforth, together with partners Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan , co-founded the free New Hampshire daily The Conway Daily Sun . The newspaper dropped its Monday edition in 2009 but continues to publish Tuesdays through Saturdays. In 1995, Danforth, together with partners James Pavelich and Dave Price (publisher) , co-founded
96-782: The free The Daily News (Palo Alto) . A year later, Pavelich and Price voted to remove Danforth from the newspaper's management. Danforth unsuccessfully sued his partners, citing financial mismanagement, and the newspaper itself was sold in 2005 to Knight Ridder , which itself was later sold. Pavelich and Price ultimately returned to Palo Alto to compete, as Palo Alto Daily Post , against their former newspaper. In 1999, Danforth co-founded California's Berkeley Daily Planet , which discontinued publication in 2010. In 2001, Danforth, together with Carolyn Sackariason and Ross Furukawa , co-founded California's Santa Monica Daily Press , which continues to publish as of 2016. Furukawa remains as president. Palo Alto Daily Post The Daily Post
108-473: The motto: "If you don't want it printed, don't let it happen." The newspaper has not been without its own controversies, however. In 2003, the paper declared that it would stop covering the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case , which it regarded as over-covered and un-newsworthy, unless and until there was a verdict or settlement. In 2010, its editor was ousted following a DUI arrest when he implied he would give
120-457: The paper, such as its address and phone number. Shortly after the paper launched, Pavelich had dismissed the need to publish Post stories online, saying "The Internet is a form of broadcast to me. We're not broadcasters. We just don't have the time to run two businesses," while the website said that "Giving away news online is a dumb way to do business." As of May 2018, The Post website does have news stories, but also recommends that readers get
132-693: Was founded by Price and Pavelich, originally occupying the Daily News's old office at 324 High Street in downtown Palo Alto, which the News had vacated when it moved to the outskirts of neighboring Menlo Park . Former Daily News editor Diana Diamond , who was fired by the Daily News in 2006 and later a columnist at the Palo Alto Weekly , was the first employee whom the Daily Post announced hiring. Originally, The Post's website did not carry news stories and only provided information about
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#1732800716356144-400: Was typewritten, both sides, with a little band of ads one inch high, a free handout," former Aspen journalist Andy Stone recalls. "He had a taste and a flair for sensational journalism." The Aspen Daily News , which soon converted to a tabloid format on traditional newsprint, has had a competition over decades with The Aspen Times , founded as a daily in 1881 before converting to a weekly in
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