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More than 32 years later, your letters still shape our work

David Lister
Thursday 03 January 2019 01:59 GMT
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My duties as weekend editor of the Daily Edition include reading all the pages before they are published. One that I take a particular interest in is the letters page.

This, more than any other, is the page that sees interaction from the readers, and lets us know, not just about your overriding concerns political, social, serious and humorous but also what you think of us.

This was never more the case than when The Independent was founded back in 1986. As a founder member then, I clearly remember those early editorial conferences, when the paper’s founder Andreas Whittam Smith would bring in one or more letters each morning and read them out.

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