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
Daily Herald (UK newspaper) commissioned from market researcher Mark Abrams, whose conclusions suggested reasons why the "Herald" was in decline, it was reborn as "The Sun" in 1964 under editor Sydney Jacobson. Roy Greenslade, though, has suggested that the "Daily Herald" was, in fact, losing readers to its own stable mate, the "Daily Mirror", rather than because of social changes. By 1969 the original "Sun" had fewer readers than the "Herald" at the end of its existence. The newspaper was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (the holding group for all of his interests at the time), and its format and (eventually) its politics