9NEWS: In 2009, when the Rocky Mountain News disappeared, people said newspapers were dead. No one reads the actual paper, they insisted – everyone is online.

“I get my news from Facebook and Tic Tok” we kept hearing. “Why do I need a newspaper?”

But now, more than a decade later, newspapers are making a comeback, especially in small towns and rural areas of Colorado.

It hasn’t been easy. Publishers are hard pressed to survive but have used many creative ways to keep going.

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