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# Life after newsprint can be rosy - as The Independent shows
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2020/03/life-after-newsprint-can-be-rosy-as-the-independent-shows/
- Published: 2020-03-06T12:44:01.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-06T12:44:00.000Z
- Description: How is The Indy doing in its post-print existence? Rather well, it turns out…
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: business models, print, the independent

Impressive results from [the company that owns *The Independent* today](https://www.ft.com/content/6f6ec9ea-5eaa-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a&ref=onemanandhisblog.com#myft:notification:instant-email:content):

> Profits at the Independent have overtaken those at bigger title the Telegraph, a significant milestone for the first national UK newspaper publisher to close its printing presses and rely solely on digital revenue.

Yup. *The Independent* has killed its print edition, and is actually *improving* its financial position.

This is not what many have been predicting. News brands appear to be surviving the transition to digital.

### Don’t cry for me, print lovers

Look, don’t worry. Nobody is saying print is dead. It isn’t. Print is changing, sure, and not all print titles will survive as print titles - but it’s not dead. Equally, though, there is profitable life for new publications after (or without) newsprint.

It’s not easy, it requires a ruthless focus on costs and customer proposition. But *The Independent* has done it - and without raising a paywall (although they do, of course, have a premium offering):

> Turnover in the year to September 2019 rose 9 per cent to £27m. The company reported pre-tax profit of £3m for the year to September 2018 and £2.3m for the following year, which it attributed to the cost of hiring more journalists.

Gosh. *Hiring* more *journalists*? How often do you hear that these days?

> John Paton, chair of Independent Digital News and Media Limited, claimed the group had become “truly a unicorn”. “Few, if any, serious newspapers in the world have made the transformation from print to digital only,” he said.

Yet, John. Yet.