Reuters late to announce Second Life bureau closure
by Tateru Nino 
Mar 2nd 2009 at 9:00PM
Filed under: News items, Opinion, Second Life, Virtual worlds
The Thomson Reuters news service (still mostly colloquially known just as Reuters) has announced the closing of their Second Life bureau ... making it official, five months after its actual closure and making it perhaps the last news service to report on its own departure.
Reuters did not replace it's last dedicated reporter (Eric Krangel) when he departed for Silicon Alley Insider back in October. In December, there was more fuss when Linden Lab charged the island fees to a credit card that it had twice promised that it had expunged from its billing system.
With the other dedicated Second Life reporter (Adam Pasick) long since moved on to other things, the mystery seems to be why Reuters is pulling the corpse out of the closet after so long, propping it up and announcing it dead.
Surely, Reuters couldn't have been the last to know.
Back in September we wrote "T[homson] R[euters] seems too switched-on to leave an unstaffed site lazing around on the Second Life grid."
We were wrong. That's exactly what they did.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Marianne McCann said on 2:48AM 3-03-2009
Wel, it is the *perfect* time for them to get that "boost" from the SL bashing bandwagon, no?
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crsh said on 7:15AM 3-03-2009
Or perhaps they just realized what a waste of time, energy and resources this whole thing has been. That sole guy manning the virtual desk in his basement prolly got his pink slip anyway (it's also the perfect time for that, sadly).
Doubledown Tandino said on 8:09AM 3-03-2009
when they have no news, their only news is to announce they have no news.
furthermore.... I've never heard of a news story being followed by reporters (second life).. then long after they are done, publish a report that they have finished their report.
"This just in to our news desk... we havnt received anything on our news desk in 5 months, so we're typing this report up on our news desk. after the report we will sell the desk"
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