Directeur: ADN sloot website omdat het geen twee parallelle redacties kon onderhouden (via google translator)
The director of the daily free DNA newspaper, Albert Montagut, said today that the digital edition of his newspaper was closed because the maintenance of two parallel newsrooms is unsustainable in the current economic situation.

During the presentation of his book “Faith of errors. A History of journalists” (Temas de Hoy), Montagut explained that the Planeta Group didn’t close the online edition of ADN because “it does not believe in the Internet” but it has come to believe that the presence of business on the wed at this time was “wrong.”

“The Internet has to be merged with the paper, with one newsroom. It has to have multiplatforms, but with a one balanced newsroom. ADN suffered the syndrome of separation between the paper and their digital element.”

For Montagut, the integration of the workforce in a single newsroom is not just inevitable, but moreso can be successful as the New York Times and the Spanish newspaper El Mundo prove.

In his book, Montagut revises his career as a journalist, which stresses its passage through the correspondent of “El Pais” in Washington and his period as director of “El Mundo” in Catalonia.

In his view, the extinction from the newsrooms of “senior” journalists who bring experience to the media and the current importance of managers making decisions of the editors, are some of the problems of the profession in Spain. “In this obsession to fix the crisis, financiers are forgetting the journalists,” he said.

En scoren ze goed op mobiel, waar volgens mij vooral op ingezet werd?