By Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:25pm

Russian Publisher Revives London Newspaper The Evening Standard

-- Evgeny Lebedev is getting high marks for reviving the Standard, The New York Times reported on December 19, 2010:

"When the Russian investor Aleksandr Lebedev took over two British newspapers and named his son, Evgeny, to oversee them, some people on Fleet Street assumed that the younger Mr. Lebedev would simply add “publisher” to the long list of pursuits that occupy the offspring of Russian billionaires in London: restaurateur, hotelier, art collector, philanthropist, fashionista and dater of famous actresses, to name just a few in his case.

Instead, Evgeny Lebedev appears to have embraced the job of running The Evening Standard and The Independent with considerable commitment. The decisions he has made at both papers, in consultation with their managers and his father, have turned around the fortunes of The Standard and given The Independent the hope of a brighter future."

The story also noted that the circulation of the Evening Standard has increased to more than 700,000, while that of The Independent is 177,000.

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