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
Amol Rajan 12 December. From May 2017, he has presented "The Media Show" on BBC Radio 4 in succession to Steve Hewlett. Since 2017, Rajan has provided holiday cover for several presenters on BBC Radio 2, including Simon Mayo and Jeremy Vine. He has guest presented several episodes of "The One Show". Rajan is a cricket enthusiast, and plays for the Authors XI cricket team. His first book, "Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers", was published by Random House in 2011. He married Charlotte Faircloth, an academic, in Cambridge in September 2013. Amol Rajan Amol Rajan (born 4 July