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 Daily Dispatch The Daily Dispatch The Daily Dispatch is a community-oriented daily newspaper based in Henderson, North Carolina, primarily covering the North Carolina counties of Vance, Granville, and Warren. It is published daily except Mondays and Christmas Day. Back-to-back winners in 2006 and 2007 of the North Carolina Press Association's General Excellence Awards for newspapers with 15,000 subscribers and less, The Dispatch was established as a daily newspaper on Aug. 12, 1914. President and Editor P.T. Way started the publication as a four-page, 16-column daily version of his semi-weekly Henderson Gold Leaf on that date when World War I brought the need