Comments on: Talking to (Shiny)Katie post-Shiny: ‘Shiny can turn things around’ http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/02/11/talking-to-shinykatie-post-shiny-shiny-can-turn-things-around/ Online journalism news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Blog Herald: Shiny Media has gone into administration | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/02/11/talking-to-shinykatie-post-shiny-shiny-can-turn-things-around/comment-page-1/#comment-14965 The Blog Herald: Shiny Media has gone into administration | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:35:16 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=7937#comment-14965 [...] who left the company in February, wrote today: “$4.5m was incorrectly reported in the press and we were told to stick with [...] [...] who left the company in February, wrote today: “$4.5m was incorrectly reported in the press and we were told to stick with [...]

]]> By: Andy Shaw http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/02/11/talking-to-shinykatie-post-shiny-shiny-can-turn-things-around/comment-page-1/#comment-11829 Andy Shaw Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:39:12 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=7937#comment-11829 It really doesn't look good for the company. The VC money will be running out/run out and online advertising is in total freefall. Will there be anyone left soon? The main point of blogging is it's independent, and unless you have sub services or paid media cross subsidsing it it's a hard to organise into a business. Traffic's all well and good, but monitising it is another question. The move of eyballs and screen time to FB/Twitter/iPhone and also the dominance of the Beeb also won't help. It really doesn’t look good for the company. The VC money will be running out/run out and online advertising is in total freefall. Will there be anyone left soon?

The main point of blogging is it’s independent, and unless you have sub services or paid media cross subsidsing it it’s a hard to organise into a business.

Traffic’s all well and good, but monitising it is another question. The move of eyballs and screen time to FB/Twitter/iPhone and also the dominance of the Beeb also won’t help.

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