INM needs true independence at the top

Who will replace Leslie Buckley when he steps down as chairman of Independent News & Media, after a tumultuous seven years that saw him ejected as a director, reappointed as chairman, involved in a spectacular scrap with former chief executive Robert Pitt and embroiled in an investigation by the state’s corporate enforcement watchdog?

Shareholders, it appears, will be none the wiser when they turn up to vote on four new appointments to the ...