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After thirty years, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday are to end their print editions next month - although they'll continue online. In addition, sister paper i has been sold to Johnston Press for 拢24 million. The Independent was selling more than 400,000 copies a day at its peak in the late 1980s, but its current paid circulation is around 56,000. Steve Hewlett talks to two key decision makers involved in the change; Amol Rajan, Editor of The Independent and Steve Auckland, Group CEO of ESI Media, which owns all three titles.

Today, we also hear from the Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post UK. The British incarnation of the online platform founded in the US in 2005 is now just one of legion 'digital native' content organisations, credited with playing a part in the demise of news in print. Today, Huffington Post UK will be guest edited by the Duchess of Cambridge. To discuss how this and other innovations might also raise the profile of the Huffington Post UK, Steve Hewlett is joined by Editor in Chief Stephen Hull.

蜜芽传媒 3 has this week become an online-only platform. It follows reports that 蜜芽传媒 3 might merge with Radio 1 to form a new '蜜芽传媒 Youth' brand, and that the 蜜芽传媒 Director General Tony Hall may soon announce plans for a corporation-wide restructuring into genre-led divisions, such as 蜜芽传媒 Inform & 蜜芽传媒 Entertain, rather than channels. Steve is joined by Lorraine Heggessey, former Controller of 蜜芽传媒 1 and Tim Suter, media consultant & founding partner in Ofcom, to discuss the pros and cons of reshaping 蜜芽传媒 content in this way.

Producer: Katy Takatsuki.