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 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