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tag">Media</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> <h1 class="entry-title">Study: Civic Engagement in Denver Dropped Dramatically Following Rocky Mountain News Closure</h1> <ul class="entry-meta fix"> <li class="entry-author">by <a href="http://denvernewspaperguild.org/author/northam99/" title="Posts by Kevin Hamm" rel="author">Kevin Hamm</a></li> <li class="entry-date"> February 19, 2014 </li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="main fix sidebar-left"> <div class="content-part"> <article id="entry-3712" class="entry fix post-3712 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-local category-media tag-rocky-mountain-news"> <div class="pad fix"> <div class="text"> <div id="attachment_853" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://denvernewspaperguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/finalfrontpage_t6001.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-853" class="size-full wp-image-853 " alt="Finalfrontpage_t600" src="http://denvernewspaperguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/finalfrontpage_t6001.jpg" width="600" height="784" srcset="http://denvernewspaperguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/finalfrontpage_t6001.jpg 600w, http://denvernewspaperguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/finalfrontpage_t6001-229x300.jpg 229w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-853" class="wp-caption-text">The Rocky Mountain News published its final edition Feb. 27, 2009.</p></div> <span class="dropcap">W</span>hile it’s generally assumed a community is worse off when a newspaper shuts down, an Oregon college professor <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/240030/study-says-civic-participation-fell-in-denver-and-seattle-after-newspapers-closed/">tried to quantify it</a>.</p> <p>Portland State University’s Lee Shaker recently published a paper, “Dead Newspapers and Citizens’ Civic Engagement,” that found civic engagement dropped in Denver and Seattle when the Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer stopped publishing. Denver’s decline was highest, with relative civic engagement dropping by nearly 30 percent (<a href="http://leeshaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dead-Newspapers-and-Citizens-Civic-Engagement-Lee-Shaker-Forthcoming-in-Political-Communication.pdf'">see chart on page 29</a>).</p> <p><em>Spoiler alert — these are the concluding sentences in Shaker’s paper:</em></p> <blockquote><p>Ultimately, if we desire healthy and productive democratic communities, then the provisioning of local news –- which helps tie citizens to each other and their communities –- must continue. Newspapers like the PI and Rocky may be gone, but a commitment to local news and information cannot be abandoned.</p></blockquote> <p>A draft of the paper can be found on <a href="http://leeshaker.com/?p=610">Shaker’s website</a>.</p> <div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-facebook-3712" class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon" href="http://denvernewspaperguild.org/study-civic-engagement-in-denver-dropped-dramatically-following-rocky-mountain-news-closure/?share=facebook" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Facebook"><span>Facebook</span></a></li><li class="share-twitter"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-twitter-3712" class="share-twitter sd-button share-icon" 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