The Evening Standard has reported a loss of £14m for last year as the Covid pandemic continued to dent advertising income and commuters remained at home, taking the London freesheet’s losses to almost £70m in the past five years.
The newspaper, which is majority owned by the Russian-British businessman Evgeny Lebedev, embarked on a big cost-cutting drive during the pandemic, reducing staff numbers by more than a quarter from 320 to 236 in the 53 weeks to 3 October last year.
