I don't know what it's like under the new owner, but I've long said that if I were rich and crazy enough to start a newspaper I'd clone the
Evening Standard.
LONDON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- More than 180 years as a paid-for newspaper
will end as the London Evening Standard positions itself as a free newspaper, its new Russian owner said.
Alexander Lebedev, who purchased 75.1 percent of the Evening Standard in January, said, "the London Evening Standard is the first leading quality newspaper to go free and I am sure others will follow."
