Christian Broughton

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Christian Broughton
Alma mater King's College, London
OccupationManaging Director
Employer The Independent

Christian Broughton is a British journalist. He has been the managing director of The Independent since October 2020. Previously he was the editor of the newspaper between 2016 and 2020.

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Career

Broughton was sports editor at The Independent between 2009 and 2010. He was appointed as assistant editor through the London Olympics, before he was promoted to digital editor in 2012 and later that year launched the sister website, indy100 . [1] He remained as digital editor after The Independent became online-only in 2016. [2] Broughton became editor of the newspaper in 2016 and was promoted to managing director in October 2020. [3]

Under his stewardship, the digital edition doubled the previous print number of subscribers to the paper, while The Independent again became profitable. [4] The Independent reportedly commanded a daily readership of six million unique visitors to the website in 2018. [5] [6]

Personal life

Broughton is married with three children. [7]

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References

  1. Turvill, William (28 September 2012). "Christian Broughton promoted to Independent website editor". Press Gazette. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  2. Ponsford, Dominic (6 May 2016). "Independent grows digital editorial team to 90 and website said to be in profit already". Press Gazette. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  3. Tobitt, Charlotte (20 October 2020). "Independent editor Christian Broughton becomes managing director with brief to build 'thriving' business". Press Gazette.
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  5. "Christian Broughton - Editor, The Independent". Media Masters. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  6. Granger, Jacob (31 October 2018). "'We learned not to treat everybody the same': why The Independent chose a membership-style model over paywalls | Media news". www.journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  7. Broughton, Christian (23 July 2018). "Volvo XC90 review - can a family of five make it to the Alps without tensions running high?". The Independent. Retrieved 24 February 2019.