This is the second in a series of guest blog posts on the future of news by former staff of the Rocky Mountain News, marking the six-month anniversary since the 150-year-old paper published its final edition. Join us this Thursday at 5 p.m. ET/ 3 p.m. MT to chat live with these writers.

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Six months ago this week, the unthinkable happened.

I got my picture in the paper. And for a reporter, that’s never a good thing.

We’re never supposed to be part of the story, but there we were inside the Rocky Mountain News newsroom, just another batch of “victims” of the economic downturn and what some people were calling a wholesale collapse of the newspaper industry.