Investors have pulled out
of InDenverTimes, the online news site started by former
reporters and staffers of the defunct Rocky Mountain News.
I would have yanked out my money also.
One, there are too many people hanging around hoping to get paychecks. Start-ups have skeleton staffs, not departments.
Second -- and most of all -- InDenverTimes is simply a bad product. Today's home page is dominated by a story about how the Rocky Mountain News would have been 150 years old today, and how InDenverTimes is made up of people who used to work for the Rocky Mountain News, and how it wants to pick up on the rich history of the Rocky Mountain News.
Most of the rest of the home page consists of appeals for subscribers, promising that they'll get better content and the chance to talk to editors and reporters.
There are many accomplished journalists at InDenverTimes.
But good intentions and a dead newspaper are not a business model.
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- Westword | Only 3,000 subscribers signed up for InDenverTimes
- Scatterbox | Rocky road for online news site
