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
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