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The Independent is the newest of the quality daily papers, set up in 1986 with the claim that it would not swallow whole the assumptions foisted on other papers by the Government’s press lobby system. (Its very memorable advertising slogan at its launch – and for several years afterwards – was “It is. Are you?”)

It leans slightly to the Left, though not as much as The Guardian – from time to time its editorials cover issues dearer to the political Right.

It was the first of the national quality papers to publish in full in a tabloid format, in 2003 (The Guardian had already been publishing its G2 section as a tabloid for several years before that), although it prefers to describe the format in rather mealy-mouthed fashion as “compact”. For a few months it offered both broadsheet and tabloid, before winding up its broadsheet version in May 2004.

It’s attracted some comment for its practice in recent years of devoting its front page to editorial comment, which has earned it the somewhat negative description of being a “viewspaper” rather than a newspaper.

Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/




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