The i Paper

As Britain’s youngest national newspaper, The i Paper’s website, inews.co.uk, has grown an audience of nought to nine million in less than a decade.

This extraordinary growth is based on readers' trust, transparency and public interest journalism - The i Paper's core values.

This year, across its homepage, app, newsletters and off-platform accounts, The i Paper’s newsroom has delivered genuine policy change that will help protect Britain’s rivers from sewage, exposed a health scandal caused by modern kitchen renovations, revealed a second Post Office IT scandal linked to wrongful convictions of postmasters, and delivered world-leading journalism on the impact of male sexual assault.

Its newsroom is a fraction of the size of the Guardian, the Times or the Telegraph yet delivers high-impact scoops that hold power to account and uncover injustice.

In addition to creating digital-first content that has increased our inews.co.uk subscriber base by nearly 70% in a year, we have reimagined visual design across the site. Our lively, fresh website design is clean and bright across desktop and mobile web, with the homepage and App dominated by digital-first illustrations that inject youthful energy into all our output.

Our content has been driven by hard-hitting scoops, sold with verve and confidence to suit each of our platforms. In January, The i Paper’s northern reporter Steve Robson uncovered claims that the Post Office had been wrongly prosecuting sub-postmasters for years before the discredited Horizon IT system was first introduced. Eight months on, as a direct result of his committed reporting, the Government’s independent investigation found that a second Post Office IT system is likely to have been faulty, with concerns about wrongful convictions.

The i Paper has also campaigned doggedly this year to prevent dumping of sewage in Britain’s precious rivers and seas. Our meticulous reporting has exposed how water companies use thousands of hidden sewage overflow points to circumvent monitoring. We also revealed that the Environment Agency was failing to attend 90 per cent of water pollution incidents in England and exposed how water companies had dumped sewage over 5,000 times in a year without a legal permit. Our five-point manifesto to Save Britain’s Rivers has drawn cross-party support, received backing from all major conservation charities and will change the law.

Labour’s announcements so far have included some significant wins for The i Paper’s campaign, including plans to tighten regulation of water companies and increasing monitoring of sewage spills.

The i Paper’s Patrick Strudwick was responsible this year for revealing the second wave of allegations against Kevin Spacey. In a detailed investigation that spanned seven years and immense legal jeopardy, he uncovered new claims against the star. This groundbreaking, scrupulous project represented a #metoo moment for men.

Inews.co.uk may be the youngest, freshest national newspaper website – but it is growing exponentially. Our subscriber sessions have expanded 200% in a year, as we accelerate the digital subscriptions project launched just three years ago. Our audience is evenly split between genders, and youthful: the vast majority are under 65s.