Rocky-Post owners call a truce, but no one’s disarming just yet

The truce is signed, but the war is far from over.

Only hours after word of the historic offer of a Joint Operating Agreement between The Denver Post and The Denver Rocky Mountain News broke on Thursday, May 11, several job offers came flying over to worried Rocky employees from the Post side. As shocked reporters huddled in the Rocky news room, a raid for some of their best

talent already was under way.

On a normal day, few would have noticed. It’s not unusual for reporters and other employees to jump from one newspaper to the other. But this was different. Rocky…