I think the greatest realisation at the end of the evening though was agreeing on what makes money on a website or mobile device.
Now, this might seem shocking or controversial to some of you; I suspect others realised this long ago.
But collectively we pretty much agreed that on any “news” product, the journalism itself doesn’t make any money. It never will. It never has. It never should. Instead it facilities a wide variety of other products which do make money; a subscription service, a shop, a sponsored mailing list, events etc.
They cannot make money without the journalism, but the journalism cannot exist without them making money.