Wendy Heiser (L) and Dee Weiland read an extra edition of the Rocky Mountain News in front of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building and United States Court House in Denver, Colorado moments after hearing Timothy McVeigh had received the death sentence in this 13 June 1997 file photo. Employees of the Rocky Mountain News have turned to the Web in a desperate bid to save the struggling Colorado newspaper. But the 200 staffers at the Denver daily are not just looking online for revenue, they've launched a website, iwantmyrocky.com, to take the case for saving the 150-year-old newspaper directly to their readers. EW Scripps Co. , the newspaper chain which owns the Rocky Mountain News, announced earlier in December 2008 that it was putting it up for sale after losing 11 million dollars in the first nine months of the year. Getty Images logo Getty Images 178 months ago

Wendy Heiser (L) and Dee Weiland read an extra edition of the Rocky Mountain News in front of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building and United States Court House in Denver, Colorado moments after hearing Timothy McVeigh had received the death sentence in this 13 June 1997 file photo. Employees of the Rocky Mountain News have turned to the Web in a desperate bid to save the struggling Colorado newspaper. But the 200 staffers at the Denver daily are not just looking online for revenue, they've launched a website, iwantmyrocky.com, to take the case for saving the 150-year-old newspaper directly to their readers. EW Scripps Co. , the newspaper chain which owns the Rocky Mountain News, announced earlier in December 2008 that it was putting it up for sale after losing 11 million dollars in the first nine months of the year.

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