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This episode of Press Gazette’s Future of Media Explained podcast features an interview with Christian Broughton, managing director of The Independent The…
The Independent has scored a 139% increase in operating profit over two years, marking the fifth year in a row that the digital paper has grown profits.
The years 2020 and 2021 were always going to be big years for climate change coverage in the UK media according to Christian Broughton, managing director of The Independent. Broughton claimed there have been three phases of climate journalism in the British media: the first with a focus on whether to believe what the scientists were saying and the second about the “nitty gritty” of data and the difference between the impacts of global warming by 1.5 degrees versus 2 degrees. The current phase we have entered, Broughton claimed, is seeing news organisations begin to ask “what are we all going to do about it?”
Online retailers haven’t been the only businesses helped by a lockdown-fuelled boom in online shopping – publishers have also benefited. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show internet sales made up 31% of total retail sales in December 2020, up 10% on the same month the year before. Total online retail sales for 2020 were up 46% on the previous year – the largest annual increase since 2008, according to the ONS. When it comes to spending online, many of us now take to the internet to research the items we want to purchase before parting with our money. [ A survey carried out by Ipsos for Google between November 2019 and January 2020 found that, both in the UK and US, adults searched online before making 88% of in-store purchases. The study also found that just over half of shoppers (51%) research new brands on Google first before buying from them.