The Independent | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-25

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent


00:01:04 1 History
00:01:12 1.1 1986 to 1990
00:03:11 1.2 1990–1999
00:05:11 1.3 2000–2009
00:05:55 1.4 2010 onwards
00:07:30 2 Content
00:07:39 2.1 Format and design
00:11:22 2.2 Front pages
00:12:36 2.3 Sections
00:12:51 2.4 Online presence
00:13:54 3 Political views
00:18:46 4 Personnel
00:18:55 4.1 Editors
00:19:17 4.2 Writers and columnists
00:19:32 4.3 Photographers
00:19:42 5 Longford Prize
00:19:57 6 Related publications
00:20:07 6.1 iIndependent on Sunday/i
00:20:31 6.2 The ii/i
00:20:56 6.3 iThe (RED) Independent/i
00:21:34 7 Awards and nominations
00:22:46 8 Owners
00:23:01 9 See also



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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 on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions.Nicknamed the Indy, it began as a broadsheet, but changed to tabloid 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.