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Article: Denver papers smooth rocky relations: ; Deal by Daily Mail owner calls for shared operations

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DENVER - For more than a century, The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News have fought for turf in one of the longest-running circulation wars in the country. The battle waged throughout Colorado's economic booms and busts, heating to a boiling point in the 1990s, when both newspapers offered subscriptions at ridiculously low rates, including a penny a day.

But an end to the bitter yet colorful competition became apparent Thursday when the two papers announced plans to form a joint operating company.

"The News and the Post have been waging a battle for circulation and ad revenue unlike any other," said Ken Lowe, president and chief operating officer of E.W. Scripps Co., which owns the ...

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