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10 unusual facts about The Independent


Classical music blog

These include Alex Ross, of The New Yorker (The Rest is Noise), Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle (On a Pacific Aisle), and Jessica Duchen of The Independent (Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog).

Ghayasuddin Siddiqui

His support for the fatwa issued by Khomeini continued as late as the year 2000, as The Independent and the Press Association reported.

Hammad Husain

Hammad was interviewed extensively in newspapers such as The Times, The Independent and Washington Times and he appeared on local TV channels to talk about the farmhouse, which became the most hotly debated property in the country.

Israel Nash

Released by Continental Record Services, the album garnered further attention in Europe and the UK and received positive reviews in publications like The Independent.

Jeff Hart and the Ruins

Compilation of print-only reviews from 1995 - 2006 from No Depression, Jem (Japan), Big Takeover (NYC), Circus (Britain), Midwestern Skies (Sweden), Not Lame (Denver, Co.), Paisley Pop (Portland, OR), News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), The Independent (Durham, NC).

John W. Wells

The Independent called Wells "the leading authority on modern and fossil corals, a noteworthy contributor on coral reefs and atolls".

Octopus Media Technology

In July 2009, following a distribution deal between OctopusMT and The Press Association, The Independent launched an online UK video news service provided by octopus.

The Daily Independent

The Independent, a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom

Wedginald

The website, initially only an internet phenomenon of limited scope, received attention from major media outlets such as the BBC, The Independent and newspapers as far away as Norway.

William Bailey Howland

William Bailey Howland (1849-1917), was the editor of The Outlook, publisher of The Independent, and The Countryside Magazine, and president of the Independent Corporation.


28 Costumes

Their album, The Fake Death Experience was reviewed positively in, amongst other publications, The Independent and Artrocker magazine.

Bluestone 42

In The Independent, James Rampton described the show as "The Hurt Locker meets Miranda" and said that it "strikes the right balance between edgy and entertaining".

Bret Anthony Johnston

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent of London and The Irish Times, the collection has received the Southern Reviews Annual Short Fiction Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, the James Michener Fellowship, and was shortlisted for Ireland's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, "the richest short story prize in the world."

Criticism of sport utility vehicles

The British national newspaper The Independent reported on a study carried out by CNW Marketing Research which suggested that CO2 emissions alone do not reflect the true environmental costs of a car.

Danny Lane

In The Independent, Jonathan Glancey wrote "Once 'a head-banging bad boy', Danny Lane is a master of form and light".

Farah Nosh

She has worked as a freelance photographer in Iraq at the time Saddam Hussein was still in power, along with a few other western journalists, in which she appeared in Life, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Marie Claire, The Globe & Mail, The National Post and The Toronto Star.

Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo

They included Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail), Stephen Pile (Sunday Telegraph), David Francis (Mail on Sunday), Cliff Barr (The Sun, Daily Express), Lee Harrison and John Cathcart (National Enquirer), Anthony Holden (Sunday Times and The Observer), Maurice Chittenden (Sunday Times), Jean Ritchie (The Sun), Mark Milner (The Guardian), and David Felton (The Independent).

Hotel Lautréamont

Barbara Everett of The Independent described the language of the book as "dislocated, dehistoricised, only making meaning if treated as a purely verbal pleasure. Language used like this restricts itself to an excessively thin power of expression. At the precise point at which the reader might trust a poetic world or style, the poem changes gear."

Ian Merrill

Returning to London, he became a full-time journalist writing freelance for The Independent, LA Weekly, The Insider and others.

Ian Stafford

As a journalist Ian has worked for The Times, Daily and Sunday Express, The Independent and The Scotsman and The Mail on Sunday covering every major sporting event over the past 25 years.

Jamie Byng

He is the second son of the 8th Earl of Strafford and Jennifer May, brother to the author Lady Georgia Byng, and through his stepfather, Sir Christopher Bland, the former Chairman of the BBC, British Telecom and Royal Shakespeare Company, he is the half-brother of print journalist and now Deputy Editor of The Independent newspaper, Archie Bland.

Janet Daley

She began writing full-time in 1987, contributing articles to The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator.

Jon Sen

Sen has also written for both TV and film and is an occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Independent and The Times of India.

Julie Myerson

She has written a column for The Independent about her domestic trials including her partner, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Jonathan Myerson, and their children Jacob (known as Jake), Chloe and Raphael.

Justin Lewis

He has written articles for The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and is a regular commentator on media, politics and cultural issues for regional and national US and UK media, including BBC Radio 5 Live, the Today programme, BBC TV News, The Independent, The Washington Post, the NBC Today Show, and National Public Radio.

Kari Herbert

After leaving school she studied Media & Design in Portsmouth, then went on to work as a fashion stylist for Japanese rock bands before becoming a travel writer and photographer for newspapers and magazines such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller.

Kim Fletcher

He left to become editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1998 to 1999, then returned to be Editorial Director of Hollinger's Telegraph New Media, the internet arm of Telegraph Group Limited, from 2000 to 2003 and Editorial Director of Telegraph Group Limited from 2003 to 2005.

Mary Ann Ochota

She has been chairman and interviewer at the annual Institute of Art and Ideas Crunch arts festivals and HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy festivals, and she regularly blogs for The Independent's Notebook.

Neath Guardian

Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief of The Independent, began his career on the Neath Guardian, as did BBC World Service business correspondent Steve Evans, who reported live from the World Trade Center during the September 11 terrorist attacks, and Daily Express rugby writer Steve Bale.

Nick Nuttall

Before joining UNEP, he was the Environment and Technology Correspondent at The Times from 1989 and before that worked for various newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph; The Independent; the Evening Standard and London Evening News, Woman and Cosmopolitan.

Norman Lebrecht

Although many eminent conductors, from Vladimir Ashkenazy and Daniel Barenboim to William Christie and Franz Welser-Möst, maintain cordial relations with Lebrecht and appear in his radio shows, an anonymous informant identified as "one of the world's leading conductors" told The Independent that Lebrecht had for years been getting away with "pompous, preposterous judgment" and "inept research".

Paul Hoggart

He has also written for The Guardian, Observer, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times, Broadcast, The Stage, Saga and Young Performer magazines, and the screenwriters’ website twelvepoint.com.

Paul Kingsnorth

In recent years, he has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV and Resonance FM.

Peter Drury

He has also written for The Independent newspaper and several sporting publications, as well as being the voice of the Sony PlayStation game 'This is Football'.

Psychogeography

Psychogeography, as a term and a concept, now reaches more British eyes than ever before, as novelist Will Self had a column of that name which started out in the British Airways Inflight magazine and then appeared weekly in the Saturday magazine of The Independent newspaper until October 2008.

Racism in the work of Charles Dickens

Paul Vallely writes in The Independent that Dickens's Fagin in Oliver Twist —the Jew who runs a school in London for child pickpockets—is widely seen as one of the most grotesque Jews in English literature.

Ralph Miliband

The journalist Andy McSmith of The Independent, in comparing the lives of Ralph, David and Ed, noted that the elder figure had a "nobility and a drama" that was lacking in their "steady, pragmatic political careers".

Robin Kevan

The Independent stated in one of its leaders in 2005 that "Mr Kevan thus follows in the footsteps of others who have decided something must be done and done it. One thinks of Florence Nightingale, Albert Schweitzer, Bob Geldof, Diana, Princess of Wales...".

Romola Butalia

As a freelance journalist, she has written for major Indian newspapers and magazines including The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Independent, Gentleman, The Observer and Pioneer.

Ruud Lubbers

In February 2005, the case was in the news again when the British daily the Independent obtained a copy of the OIOS report and accompanied by an article by Kate Holt published its contents.

The North Sea Scrolls

The album was described by Simon Price in The Independent as "deeply engrossing" and ringing "resoundingly with cultural and historical truth".

The Statesman

BBC reported that the Muslims were upset with The Statesman for reproducing Johann Hari's article "Why should I respect these oppressive religions?" from the UK's The Independent daily in its February edition.

Tom Cannavan

He has also contributed to publications such as The Sunday Times, The Independent, The World of Fine Wine, Decanter and GrapesTALK.

Tor-Kristian Karlsen

In addition to his scouting engagement, Karlsen have been working freelance for TV 2 (Norway), BBC Radio, FIFA Magazine, SportBild, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Independent, The Times and Four Four Two as an football expert and analyzer.

Tummyrub

BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Oxford featured Tummyrub in 2 shows dedicated to Fractal Music in 1991 and they also appeared in the press; Computer music magazine April 1991, Music Technology magazine July 1991 and The Independent May 1991.

Yaakov Shabtai

In its English translation the novel received international acclaim as a unique work of modernism, prompting critic Gabriel Josipovici of The Independent to name it the greatest novel of the decade, comparing it to Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Zak Waters

Zak Waters (born 1966) is an award-winning editorial photographer, whose newspaper clients include The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and Le Point.

Ziyad Cattan

According to an article published in The Independent (UK), on September 19, 2005, Hazim al-Shaalan, Defense Minister of Iyad Allawi's interim administration, appointed Ziyad Cattan, as the Defence Ministry's procurement chief.