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…

Robert Peston: Scooptastic political editor, ITV News, with the unusual diction; City editor, 1990-91 (Rex)

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.