Growing industry suffers from info void

With cutbacks the name of the hedge fund game at the Denver Post, the rumors have also been swirling about the newspaper’s industry-leading marijuana news portal, the Cannabist.

But while most of the reports have stated that owner of the newspaper, Alden Global Capital, intentionally cut the staff of the website that does not appear to be entirely true. A former staff member of the Post said while the portal staff has been decimated recently, most of those jobs were by attrition.

Former editor Ricardo Baca said when he started the portal in 2013, there…