The Independent effectively having to function under siege from sacked print workers picketing outside. "The Independent" attracted some of the staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to his company's new headquarters. Launched with the advertising slogan "It is. Are you?", and challenging both "The Guardian" for centre-left readers and "The Times" as the newspaper of record, "The Independent" reached a circulation of over 400,000 by 1989. Competing in a moribund market, "The Independent" sparked a general freshening of newspaper design as well as, within a few years, a price war in the market sector. When "The
The Post (British newspaper) get" page design and was the first national newspaper to be both conceived and composed by journalists, it had, for its short life, the most advanced production techniques devised, project managed and implemented by both Bryan Dean and Graham Binns . In addition to this, the pages were transmitted by phone line to the printshop, which gave extra lead time (no courier service). The Post (British newspaper) The Post was a national tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, owned by Eddy Shah. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. The first edition was issued on Thursday