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The Independent newspaper

The Independent
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Front page of The Independent dated 10 August 2016
Type Online newspaper
Format Website
Owner(s) Alexander Lebedev
Evgeny Lebedev
Publisher Independent Print Limited
Editor Christian Broughton
Founded October 7, 1986; 30 years ago (1986-10-07)
Political alignment Liberal
independent (previously)
Headquarters Northcliffe House
City London
Country United Kingdom
Circulation 54,187, Monday to Saturday; 90,248 Sunday (February 2016)
Sister newspapers The Independent on Sunday
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ISSN 0951-9467
OCLC number 185201487
Website Official website
The Independent on Sunday
Type Sunday newspaper
Editor Lisa Markwell
Circulation 155,661
ISSN 0958-1723
OCLC number 500339994

The Independent is a British online newspaper. Established in 1986 as an independent national morning newspaper published in London, it was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in 2010. The last printed edition of The Independent was published Saturday 20 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions.

Nicknamed the Indy, it began as a broadsheet, but changed to tabloid (compact) format in 2003. Until September 2011, the paper described itself on the banner at the top of every newspaper as "free from party political bias, free from proprietorial influence". It tends to take a pro-market stance on economic issues.

The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards.

In June 2015, it had an average daily circulation of just below 58,000, 85 per cent down from its 1990 peak, while the Sunday edition had a circulation of just over 97,000.

Launched in 1986, the first issue of The Independent was published on 7 October in broadsheet format. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at The Daily Telegraph who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Marcus Sieff was the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing, and Whittam Smith took control of the paper.


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