I wrote an analyis of the newslabs model back in March prior to their launch: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/03/journalism-advertising-business-model.html

I wrote an analyis of the newslabs model back in March prior to their launch: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/03/journalism-advertising-business-model.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/03/journalism-advertising... From my analysis I couldn't see the financials working out (obviously that wasn't the cause of their failure in this case; but I presume the financials not working didn't help the situation).