The Denver Newspaper Agency was a publishing company in

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, which published the ''Denver Post'', a daily newspaper owned by the

MediaNews Group MNG Enterprises, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 ass ...

. From its inception in 2001 until Friday, February 27, 2009, the DNA was responsible for the non-editorial operations of both major newspapers in Denver, the ''

Rocky Mountain News The ''Rocky Mountain News'' (nicknamed the ''Rocky'') was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. the Monday–Friday ...

'' (owned by the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...

) and ''

The Denver Post ''The Denver Post'' is a daily newspaper and website published in the Denver metropolitan area. it has an average print circulation of 57,265. In 2016, its website received roughly six million monthly unique visitors generating more than 13 mil ...

''. When the ''

'' ceased publication, the Denver Newspaper Agency became the publisher of the ''Post'' only. After a continued rivalry that almost put both papers out of business, the ''News'' and the ''Post'' merged operations in 2001 under a

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. as the newly formed Denver Newspaper Agency. DNA was jointly owned by Scripps and MediaNews from 2001 until the discontinuance of the ''Rocky Mountain News''. While the newspapers shared an advertising and circulation department, they still published separately (except during the weekends, when only the ''News'' was published on Saturday and only the ''Post'' on Sunday; both newspapers' editorial pages appeared in both weekend papers) and maintained their rivalry. The JOA was dissolved on February 27, 2009, when the ''News'' published its last issue. The following day, the ''Post'' published its first Saturday issue since 2001. On December 10, 2009, the Denver Newspaper Agency, was dissolved and folded into ''

'' &

Media News Group MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 assorted othe ...

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