ESI Media said it was also selling off the “i” -- a cut-price sister title -- to fund the website of The Independent.
“The newspaper industry is changing and that change is being driven by readers. They’re showing us that the future is digital,” said Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian-born British owner of The Independent, which was established in 1986.
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