State of independence

How a new breed of indie magazines inspired Conor Purcell to write a book

Conor Purcell: ‘The fact that most indie titles get little or no advertising means they are beholden to no one, and they exhibit an authenticity that is missing in the majority of mainstream magazines’

My journey towards the promised land of independent print started in Dubai about ten years ago. I was editing Emirates’ inflight magazine, Open Skies, and was intrigued by the new wave of independent magazines that were emerging at the ...