Amol Rajan national newspaper when his "Independent" appointment was announced, although that claim has also been made on behalf of Rachel Beer. His predecessor as editor of "The Independent", Chris Blackhurst, became Group Content Director. When "The Independent" proprietor Evgeny Lebedev announced a move to digital-only in February 2016, with the imminent closure of the print edition, it emerged that Rajan would remain with the company to help facilitate the change in direction. His role as editor-at-large for "The Independent" website ended after he was appointed as the BBC's first Media Editor in November 2016, and he assumed his new post on
The Hill (newspaper) the Washington bureau of "The New York Times". In 2003, Hugo Gurdon, who was previously a foreign correspondent (New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Washington, industrial editor at "The Daily Telegraph" (London) and founding managing editor of the Toronto-based "National Post"), became "The Hill"s editor in chief. Gurdon turned "The Hill" from a weekly paper into a daily during congressional sessions. In 2014, Gurdon left for the "Washington Examiner" and was replaced by his managing editor, Bob Cusack. The newspaper has the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill publication, with more than 24,000 print readers. It also operates a news website