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Eric Gordon is founding editor of Camden New Journal, one of the first independent local London papers, which has survived since 1982.

Eric explained how the newspaper has a £2m a year turnover with a staff of 30. “Even now, despite the slump, we’re getting by.”

But if we do find ourselves in that situation, it won’t be because citizen journalists have come along and taken the audience away from us, it’llbe because we haven’t done a good enough job in convincing an audience to stick with us, or found the right way to make money from it.