Published: June 11th 2009 - at 12:42 pm

Is the Russian buying the Indy?


by Sunny Hundal    

Brand Republic is reporting that Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev is in talks to buy The Independent.


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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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1. Rayyan

Is he our Berlusconi? Owning multiple newspapers?

2. Rob Knight

Hang on, I thought it was the BNP who were the ones complaining about foreigners disrupting our way of life? Or do “the Russians” not count?

(OK, I admit, that was a bit troll-ish)

3. Sunny Hundal

Too predictable Rob! :)
I’m not really complaining, but if I was it would be about media consolidation rather than foreign media ownership.

4. cjcjc

Is this good or bad?
Would it fold otherwise?

5. Joseph Edwards

If this gets rid of the current editor, I’m all for it.

6. MatGB

Is this good or bad?

It’s interesting.

It would definitely be nice to see a newspaper group that isn’t Murdoch, Desmond or crap.


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