Evgeny Lebedev after a year. The papers have been described as "progressive" in "The New York Times". In 2013, Amol Rajan became editor of "The Independent", making him the second non-white editor of a national newspaper. Two of the other editors have been women: Sarah Sands preceding George Osborne at the "Evening Standard", and Lisa Markwell of "The Independent on Sunday". Some of the editors in Lebedev's newspaper group are unusually young; Rajan and the "i" editor, Oliver Duff, are both in their early thirties. In February 2016, it was announced that Independent Press Ltd had reached an agreement to sell the
The Daily News (Batavia) the managing editor of the paper. A 2009 poll in "The Batavian", another local paper, indicated that 37.2% of respondents felt that partisanship did not figure into The Daily News' coverage, while 23.4% of respondents felt it leaned Republican, and 17.9% felt it leaned Democrat. 21.1% answered "not sure." Tiffany Towner, a former managing editor at The Daily News, was selected for "Editor & Publisher's" 2017 "25 under 35" list of the “next generation of newspaper publishing leaders.” In 2017, The Daily News gained recognition at the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Awards in a number of categories, including