Simon Kelner - SUNDAY (7th Nov), 8PM

8pm, Massey Room, Balliol College

Newspaper editor of the year, Simon Kelner has been editor of The Independent for ten years, not including two years as the paper's managing director. He has been at the Indy since its very first issue, in 1986, when he was the paper's deputy sport editor.

As editor, he has mastermined the paper's campaigning 'poster' front pages, its innovative 'viewspaper' and its relaunch under new owner Alexander Lebedev, who also owns London's Evening Standard. The Indy was the first UK 'broadsheet' to switch to a tabloid format - a move replicated around the world.

In a coup for the society, his visit is one of his first public talks since he launched i last Tuesday. i, the first quality national newspaper to launch in the UK since The Independent itself in 1986, is priced aggressively at 20p and aimed at the time-poor commuter who wants his or her news without virulently right-wing views and naked women.

Initial feedback on i has been extremely positive, with Kelner saying that sales have vastly outweighed even their most bullish predictions.

The talk will be a great opportunity to quiz Kelner about the new format and how it fits in with the Indy, as well as to hear from one of British journalism's longest-serving and most innovative editors.

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