Welcome to the first edition of a brand new newsletter from Independent Processor. Every month, Independent Processor’s Prime Cuts will be delivering exclusive stories, editorials and expanded interviews from some of the people and companies featured in our print magazine. We hope that you like what we have to offer and will help to spread the word on this new venture.
My journalism career started roughly at the time that the Internet started to take off. In my first job, I was handed the task of updating our magazine’s website — probably because I was the lowest person on the totem pole. This predated the rise of content management systems and the like, so every page had to be built from an HTML template and added manually. The website was a copy of the magazine, with no new content, and certainly no newsletters. Even later on, as we started to pay attention to online traffic, I never thought that we’d end up writing exclusive information to the online audience.