The Top Ten: Independent on Sunday alumni
Some of the greats of literature, journalism and economics learnt their craft as staff on 'The Independent on Sunday'. To mark the end of the title, we salute them all, including these 10…
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Your support makes all the difference.1. Lynn Barber
The world's most acerbic interviewer; feature writer and rightly feared profiler, 1990-93.
2. Matthew Sweet
Broadcaster all over Radios 3 and 4, writer, journalist; film critic, 1998-99, and feature writer.
3. Robert Chote
Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility; economics writer, 1990-94.
4. Sebastian Faulks
Novelist, broadcaster and writer of James Bond "continuation" books; deputy editor, 1989-91.
5. Zoë Heller
Confessional columnist turned literary novelist; feature writer and columnist, 1990-95.
6. Anthony Lane
Wit, stylist and giant of film criticism for the mighty New Yorker; film critic, 1990-93.
7. Blake Morrison
Poet and memoirist (And When Did You Last See Your Father?); literary editor, 1990-95.
8. Maggie O'Farrell
Novelist of sisterhood and loss; editorial assistant rising to deputy literary editor, 1996-2000.
9. Robert Peston
Scooptastic political editor, ITV News, with the unusual diction; City editor, 1990-91.
10. Janet Street-Porter
Journalist and broadcaster with an even more distinctive diction than Peston's; editor, 1999-2002.
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