Twice recognised in the Online News Association’s (ONA) annual awards, Spanish news site Soitu.es has announced its closure.
Building an audience was not the issue – attracting advertisers to a new model was the problem, Gumersindo Lafuente, founder of the site, has said (in a post attracting 760 comments so far).
At 22-months-old, Soitu’s closure will be a blow/lesson to news start-ups and independent sites recently launched.