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 Herald (UK newspaper) commissioned from market researcher Mark Abrams, whose conclusions suggested reasons why the "Herald" was in decline, it was reborn as "The Sun" in 1964 under editor Sydney Jacobson. Roy Greenslade, though, has suggested that the "Daily Herald" was, in fact, losing readers to its own stable mate, the "Daily Mirror", rather than because of social changes. By 1969 the original "Sun" had fewer readers than the "Herald" at the end of its existence. The newspaper was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (the holding group for all of his interests at the time), and its format and (eventually) its politics