[On the future of The Independent] With care, investment and innovation it might just thrive in the new media economy, particularly if a free distribution model covering all of Britain's major cities can be achieved.
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Luckhurst was sceptical of The Independent as a free newspaper (like the Lebedev-owned Evening Standard) and concerned about the effects of non-paywalled online content on newly paywalled titles in his article of 8 January 2010 quoted above.