Another first for the Independent as it plots a digital-only future

Meanwhile, Evgeny Lebedev’s rival newspaper publishers must go on riding two horses galloping in opposite directions The switch from print to screen is well advanced. Plenty of newspapers in the US have made the move or are in the process of doing so by reducing the number of days in which they publish on paper.It has happened in Britain too, with Trinity Mirror abandoning newsprint in Berkshire. So there is much sense in Brian Cathcart’s positive view in his piece, the Independent ceasing to print would be the death of a medium, not of a message. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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