The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indie, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindie. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers, with a circulation of 261,193 in November 2005 according to the UK Audit Bureau of Circulations. The paper was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards.

History

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Creation in 1986

The Independent is the youngest British broadsheet newspaper, first published in October 1986. Despite it no longer being published in broadsheet format, the other connotations of the term still apply. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing Ltd. and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three were former journalists at The Daily Telegraph who had left the regime of Lord Hartwell. Marcus Sieff became the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing and Whittam Smith took control of the paper.

The paper was created at a time of considerable tension in British journalism. Rupert Murdoch was challenging long accepted practices and was fighting with the print unions. In this unsettled atmosphere the newly created paper was able to attract very good staff from the Murdoch broadsheets, who chose to jump ship rather than move to Wapping. The Independent also had a rather better relationship with its printers than others, mainly because it had not been around long enough for the relations to sour.

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watching interesting film about origami called Between the Folds on PBS' Independent Lens; son is amazed at the creations being made
swadlow (swadlow) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:42:34 -0000
watching interesting film about origami called Between the Folds on PBS' Independent Lens; son is amazed at the creations being made
Sport in brief: New Neath-based club take on the mantle discarded by Crusaders - Independent http://twa.lk/QAgaS
glaxiuz (Glaxiuz Stacking Cup) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:37:17 -0000
Sport in brief: New Neath-based club take on the mantle discarded by Crusaders - Independent http://twa.lk/QAgaS
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Welcome to the age of extremes http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a1832082.html
anndar (anndar) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:28:38 -0000
Welcome to the age of extremes http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a1832082.html
Is the very accurate thing to get boys are playing hard to get?? Well they do seems get away if we needy,, be independent girls!! ;)
yukiramdhani (yuki ramdhani) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:27:44 -0000
Is the very accurate thing to get boys are playing hard to get?? Well they do seems get away if we needy,, be independent girls!! ;)
@LiterateKnits @danfaust But it *is* independent & kitschy, so it's worth one go even if the food is crap. I just don't know locals who go.
rhiannonrevolts (Rhi) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:22:40 -0000
@LiterateKnits @danfaust But it *is* independent & kitschy, so it's worth one go even if the food is crap. I just don't know locals who go.

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