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
The Sportsman (2006 newspaper) The Sportsman (2006 newspaper) The Sportsman was a daily published in the United Kingdom for seven months during 2006. It was launched on 22 March and intended to complement Dennis Publishing's gambling magazine, "Total Gambler". It was the brainchild of editor-in-chief Charlie Methven, and the UK's first new national daily newspaper since the launch of the "Daily Sport" in 1991. It claimed to be a one-stop shop for the modern punter, offering news, views and tips on sport, racing and anything else bookmakers give odds on. Sales reached 22,333 in May, some way short of its target break-even figure of