Observer in Chaos After Botched Website Launch – Guido Fawkes

Observer in Chaos After Botched Website Launch

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Guido hears from insiders at the Observer that it is far from happy families at the sunday paper, now owned by slow-news leftists at Tortoise. Even the BBC had a laugh at James Harding’s expense…

Internal sources leaking from the newsroom say the sign up to emails hasn’t been working and live events can be signed up to for free when they should be paid. And even then there is no sign up email…

Sources say there is no working archive function for the website’s content and no subscription plans for digital content. Guido hears that somewhere in the region of £250,000 was spent on developing a mobile app which is so far so dysfunctional it just links back to the Observer’s website. Scrambling to sort out the print has delayed audiovisual products, some of which should have gone out weeks ago. Teething problems…

An inside source tells Guido:

“Internal work flows are a mess and people have been working late into the night to get basic stuff done – some very unhappy people inside.”

Meanwhile Harding’s slow news venture Tortoise Media is tanking viewers at a hare’s rate. Double trouble…