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
Daily Planet (Philadelphia alternative newspaper) a repackaged part of a larger weekly with a paid circulation. The Daily Planet was an early example of the now-common business model of an advertiser-funded weekly local entertainment guide. By comparison to today's examples, however, it had substantially more political and arts feature content. As of 2012, an internet search yields little evidence of the once popular Daily Planet. Ingram, former editor of Philadelphia’s “underground” newspaper, The Drummer/The Distant Drummer/Thursday’s Drummer – makes the case that the role of 1970s alternative weeklies continues today - blogs are doing it now. Daily Planet (Philadelphia alternative newspaper) The Daily Planet was