Denver Post CEO and publisher Mac Tully announced Tuesday that he will depart at the end of January, capping more than four years at the helm of Colorado’s leading news organization during a time of constant change.
Tully, who also is executive vice president of Digital First Media, said in a letter to the staff that he is not ready to retire. But “after 40 years in the industry, I’m ready for something a little less stressful. I’ll miss the stellar and most talented people I’ve had the great fortune to work with at The Denver Post and throughout the rest of the company,” he wrote.
Among the organization’s accomplishments, Tully listed launching The Know, The Cannabist and Insights Lab.
“We’ve tried a lot of different, cutting-edge things over the past few years in an effort to grow/diversify our audience and revenues,” he wrote.
“Achieving our long-sought strategic goal ‘crossover’ is probably the most significant accomplishment that will occur in 2018,” Tully wrote. “I’m proud to say that we’re now directly on a path where our fast-growing digital advertising revenues will surpass our challenged print legacy advertising revenues. That significant accomplishment will go a long way toward stabilizing our company.
“I’m proud of the transition we have undergone from print-centric to a platform-agnostic media company. The transition has clearly been a journey and one that will certainly continue as the media landscape will continue to evolve. Our advantages are The Denver Post’s trusted brand and our unique, relevant and valued content.”
Tully’s announcement comes a day after The Post rolled out an online subscription model charging readers $11.99 per month for unlimited online access, replacing free content online. On Saturday, the paper will move out of its longtime downtown Denver home, relocating most of its operations to its printing facility in Adams County.
Lee Ann Colacioppo, who became the first female editor in the 125-year history of The Post when Tully named her to the job in 2016, called the departing publisher a “tireless advocate for The Denver Post and for journalism in general.”
“He loves newspapers and has devoted his career to making us successful,” Colacioppo said.
