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
Jónas Kristjánsson (newspaper editor) of Fréttablaðið and in 2003 he returned to the DV as a columnist. In 2005 he was again hired as the editor of DV before leaving the post for good in 2006. From 2006 to 2008 he taught journalism at University of Iceland. Jónas married Kristín Halldórsdóttir on 24 December 1963 and together they had four children. Kristín, who was a member of Alþingi from 1983 to 1989 and 1995–1999, passed away on 14 July 2016. Jónas passed away on 29 June 2018 on the cardiology department of the National University Hospital of Iceland. Jónas Kristjánsson (newspaper editor) Jónas Kristjánsson