The Independent puts 52 staff roles at risk of redundancy as digital ad market declines

Russian-British businessman Evgeny Lebedev is a shareholder in the Independent. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

The Independent has put more than a fifth of its staff at risk of redundancy as a decline in the digital ad market and wider worsening economic conditions forces the online-only publisher to seek to cut costs.

The publisher has put 52 roles at risk of redundancy in the UK – 30 of which are in editorial positions – out of about 240 employees.