Geordie Greig’s hiring puts The Independent’s global ambition over its UK political positioning 🔴 The Independent has built phenomenal reach online, such that it now boasts the largest monthly UK audience among 'quality' titles
This is why the well-connected Greig was brought in. Friends with David Hockney, Tom Wolfe and major Independent shareholder Lord Lebedev, he wrote a memoir on his times with Lucian Freud and is amicable with cabinet ministers and High Street chief executives. “If there’s someone who Geordie can’t get to in two phone calls, I don’t know who that is,” exclaims John Paton, chairman of Independent Digital News & Media.
Greig’s career began on a local paper in Deptford, south London, and Paton says he has repeatedly demonstrated “independence”. As editor of the Standard, he campaigned against homelessness. At the’s global ambition than its UK political positioning. In its first three years as a digital-only operation, the Indy was stabilising in a sector that questioned its sustainability.