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 National (Scotland) "many good things to say about the National" including its editor, who was leading a newspaper that "helps to reflect public opinion better". In September 2018, the National launched a Sunday edition to fill the void left by the ending of the Sunday Herald. The National (Scotland) The National is a Scottish daily newspaper that is owned by the publisher Newsquest. It began publication on 24 November 2014, and was the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support Scottish independence. Launched as a response to calls from Newsquest's readership for a pro-independence paper in the wake of the 2014 Scottish