“Your support has far exceeded our expectations; however, we’ve fallen short of other goals, so we are shutting down the site while we reassess our future,” the email reads.
DailyUV attracted about 80,000 monthly visitors and more than 100 regular bloggers, Seven Days reported earlier this year. It paid out $71,000 to content creators over a recent 12-month period, according to the company.
Alexander envisioned the platform as a space where professional news organizations and citizen bloggers would publish side by side.
But in a note published Friday to the site under his username, Brave Little Startup, Alexander said local newspapers haven’t wanted to collaborate with HereCast.
Alexander has used the platform in the last couple of months to advance his critiques of the Valley News, which he claimed has refused to run HereCast advertisements or credit its users for breaking local stories. He also wrote that a recent Seven Days profile of the company evidenced traditional journalism organizations’ “provincial” attitudes about what’s news.
Alexander did not respond to an emailed request for comment. His post referred to the shutdown as a “hiatus” and asked supporters to “stay tuned.”
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There goes my chance to write up some clickbait!
You obviously never used the site then otherwise you wouldn’t be saying that.
@DerekBrouwer – “Alexander did not respond to an emailed request for comment.” ??
I responded to your email request the next day:
Hi Derek –
Here’s a blog post with an embedded link that explain things a little more: https://herecast.us/985391
I’m not going to do interviews or further statements at this time, but would encourage you to reach out to casters or even some of those who commented on the blog post to hear from them what we brought to the local media scene they aren’t finding elsewhere.
Watt Alexander