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The Denver Post traces its origins to The Evening Post, founded in August 1892 by supporters of Grover Cleveland with $50,000. On the 28th of October 1895, Harry Heye Tammen and Frederick Gilmer Bonfils purchased the paper for $12,500 and began the publishing era that gave it its modern identity.
The Denver Post has won nine Pulitzer Prizes. These include prizes for editorial cartooning by Paul Conrad in 1964 and Pat Oliphant in 1967, feature photography awards in 1984, 2010, and 2012, a public service award in 1986, and breaking news awards for coverage of the Columbine massacre in 2000 and the Aurora shooting in 2013.
The Denver Post has been owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital since 2010, when it acquired the bankrupt parent company MediaNews Group. Critics, including the Post's own editorial board, have called Alden "vulture capitalists" for reducing the newsroom from more than 250 journalists before 2010 to around 70 by April 2018.
In January 2001, The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News entered a joint operating agreement that created the Denver Newspaper Agency, merging their business operations while keeping separate newsrooms. The agreement ended on the 27th of February 2009 when the Rocky Mountain News published its last issue.
The Post's editorial board published a direct denunciation of its owners after 30 layoffs were announced in March 2018. The board called Alden Global Capital "vulture capitalists" who were "strip-mining" the newspaper, and concluded that if Alden was unwilling to support the newsroom it should sell the Post to owners who will.
The Denver Post launched an online cannabis media brand in 2013, just before Colorado legalized cannabis, initially led by Editor in Chief Ricardo Baca. By September 2016, the publication had surpassed the industry veteran High Times in its tracking metric.