WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

His founder, Gumersindo Lafuente, was the former editor of elmundo.es

Today he announced that soitu.es, one of the most innovative online-only publications in Spain, 22 month after its launch, is out.

Why?

Lost a lot of money and was, I’m sorry, irrelevant.

That’s all.

UPDATE:

In Rue89 AFP’s Eric Scherer says that there three lessons to be learned from the death of soitu.es

1. Don’t depend only from one shareholder (specially if it is a bank)

2. Start small.

3. Don’t depend only from advertising.

Well soitu.es made all these three mistakes.

The New York Times explanation:

In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange).

If you look at the third photo, it appears that one of the missiles failed to launch, and then they tried to cover that up in the doctored photo.

(Illustration by The New York Times; photo via Agence France-Presse)

This final image, part of a framegrab from an Al Alam television broadcast of the launch (apparently taken at approximately the same time from a slightly higher elevation), makes it pretty clear which missile was conjured from borrowed pixels.

So, Agence France Press (AFP) had to retract it, saying:

A handout picture released on the news website and public relations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards … shows an image apparently digitally altered to show four missiles rising into the air instead of three during a test-firing at an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert on July 9, 2008. The 2nd Right missile has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test.

The Olympic torch is in trouble.

(Photo by Reuters)

And the world tour in two old fashioned graphics from AFP.