Harry Owen, CEO of City AM, is sitting in his upmarket office in London’s Cheapside, telling me about the day the business publication rose from the ashes. If you’ve spent any time in the Square Mile – home to 600,000 workers – you’ll have seen copies of the free paper born in 2005 as a sort of cheeky rival to the Financial Times – shorter, snappier, brasher. The market crash of 2008 gave it serious momentum – everyone wanted to read about the economy – but then Covid-19 all but killed it. By July 2023, the paper was insolvent. Administrators…

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