He was appointed as assistant editor through the London Olympics, before he was promoted to digital editor in 2012 and later that year launched the sister website, indy100.
[1] He remained as digital editor after The Independent became online-only in 2016.
[2] Broughton became editor of the newspaper in 2016 and was promoted to managing director in October 2020.
[3] Under his stewardship, the digital edition doubled the previous print number of subscribers to the paper, while The Independent again became profitable.
[4] The Independent reportedly commanded a daily readership of six million unique visitors to the website in 2018.