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The Independent

November 2025

  • Andreas Whittam Smith at the launch of the Independent, London, October 1986.

    Sir Andreas Whittam Smith obituary

    Financial journalist who was the founding editor of the groundbreaking Independent newspaper in 1986

October 2024

  • The final print edition of the London Evening Standard

    Evening Standard losses top £100m in seven years as daily closes

    The Independent, in which Evgeny Lebedev is also biggest shareholder, reports seventh year of profitability

June 2024

  • Derek Birdsall with Francis Bacon in the Omnific studio with pages from a projected volume of the artist’s work, 1990.

    Derek Birdsall obituary

    Graphic designer and typographer who was the art director of Nova and the Independent magazine

May 2024

  • Terry Coleman in 1983

    Terry Coleman obituary

  • Tony O'Reilly (Anthony O'Reilly)

    Sir Tony O’Reilly obituary

March 2024

  • The logo of news website BuzzFeed

    Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

    Media companies to combine publishing and advertising platforms to target gen Z and millennials

November 2023

  • Will Lewis, newly appointed publisher and CEO of the Washington Post.

    The British are coming! US media sees influx of Britons in top roles

    Will Lewis’s helming of the Washington Post comes after the Wall Street Journal and CNN hired other UK talent as top brass

January 2023

  • Geordie Greig

    Geordie Greig appointed editor of the Independent

    Former Daily Mail boss reunited with Lord Lebedev as news outlet faces tough financial challenges

November 2022

  • Russian-British businessman Evgeny Lebedev controls the Independent.

    The Independent puts 52 staff roles at risk of redundancy as digital ad market declines

    The online-only publisher saw a fifth consecutive year of profitability in 2021, but said it now needs to cut costs

September 2022

  • Charles Wilson, editor of the Times, in the newsroom at Wapping, London, in 1987.

    Charles Wilson obituary

    Tough, astute former editor of the Times tasked with broadening the paper’s appeal and overseeing its move to Wapping in the 1980s

May 2022

  • Alexander Lebedev promoting his autobiographical book in 2019.

    Alexander Lebedev severs links with Independent after Canada sanctions

    Russian oligarch, who bought British news outlet for £1 in 2010, ‘directly enabled’ Putin’s war, says Canada

March 2022

  • Evgeny Lebedev.

    Keir Starmer calls for investigation into Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage

    UK spy agencies reframed warning about security risk of appointing media owner after Boris Johnson intervened

May 2021

  • Oliver Gillie

    Oliver Gillie obituary

    Medical journalist in the vanguard of a revolution in science writing who argued for the benefits of vitamin D supplements
  • Dean Baquet of the New York Times, Fran Unsworth of BBC News, John Witherow of the Times and the Independent’s Christian Broughton

    Guardian 200
    Editors’ tributes on the Guardian’s 200th birthday: the full list

    Messages from media figureheads in Britain and around the world to mark the Guardian’s bicentenary
  • Newspaper mastheads

    Guardian 200
    ‘Stuff of legends’: editors around world salute the Guardian on 200 years

    Leading newspaper editors and publishers have paid tribute as the Guardian celebrates its bicentenary

November 2020

  • Inside the The Washington Post newsroom, USA. From the series Above The Fold ©Noel Bowler

    Where the headlines are made: inside newsrooms around the world - in pictures

    Gallery19
  • Robert Fisk in Homs, Syria in 2019.

    Robert Fisk obituary

October 2020

  • The Observer<br>Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" - photographed at her home in Walthamstow. interview by Nosheen Iqbal.

    Reni Eddo-Lodge demands apology from Spectator over segregation comments

    Bestselling author has lodged complaint with Ipso after the magazine refused to apologise for printing remarks made by junior equalities minister Kemi Badenoch

June 2020

  • ‘Mostly I fear that what we write doesn’t make the slightest difference’ ... Robert Fisk in Syria.

    This Is Not a Movie review – the drama and tragedy of the Middle East

    The veteran war reporter Robert Fisk poses painful and profound questions about conflict and humanity in this engaging biographical documentary

April 2020

  • The homepage of Independent Turkish.

    Independent caught in tit-for-tat Turkey-Saudi media battle

    Ankara bans UK publication’s Turkish-language site over its links to Riyadh
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