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Article: Another Indy relaunch: shame about the dull bits; MEDIA PETER WILBY GUEST COLUMNIST While designers come and go at The Independent, the paper has yet to recruit any columnists of startling originality.(Column)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2005
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Byline: PETER WILBY
THE Independent - and I write as one who worked there for the first decade of its life - has never been quite sure what it is for. Is it a less preachy rival to The Guardian? A more upmarket rival to a dumbed-down Times?
A younger, hipper Daily Telegraph? Or, now that it is a tabloid, a more centrist and metropolitan Daily Mail?
That uncertainty must explain why it hired and sacked half-a-dozen designers before it launched and why it has since been redesigned more often than any other national.
And here we go again, less than two years after it became the first "compact" quality.
Another new look was ...