🇬🇧 United Kingdom
credibility 3/5
lean center-left
The Independent
The Independent is a UK-based national news outlet published at independent.co.uk. It began as a print newspaper and is now primarily a digital publication covering UK and international news, politics, culture, business, sport, and opinion.
Profile
Founded
1986
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Ownership
Published by Independent Digital News & Media Ltd, associated with Evgeny Lebedev and Lebedev Holdings.
Funding
advertising, subscriptions, and affiliate/e-commerce revenue
Coverage focus
It focuses on UK and world news, politics, culture, climate, business, sport, lifestyle, and opinion.
Reputation
It is generally regarded as a major UK national outlet with a liberal editorial tradition and broad digital reach, while critics note its heavy use of opinion, aggregation, and commercial content.
In our corpus
240,386 articles · 17 Apr → 7 Jul
Domain
Reader notes. Digital-only since 2016 · Some content is subscription-only · Uses affiliate links and commercial partnerships
Where these ratings come from. Country, credibility and lean are curated v1 mappings composited from public ratings (AllSides, Media Bias/Fact Check); outlets we haven't reviewed stay unrated. The profile text above is an AI-generated summary (gpt-5.5) written under a strict no-guessing rule — facts the model isn't confident about are omitted rather than invented. Verify independently before citing.
Recent coverage