The Independent is a British national morning
newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by
Alexander Lebedev since 2010. Nicknamed the
Indy, it was launched in 1986 and is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The daily edition was named
National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004
British Press Awards. The current editor,
Amol Rajan, was appointed in 2013, and its deputy editor,
Archie Bland, in 2012. Bland was one of the youngest people to be appointed to a senior managerial post in the British newspaper industry, at 28 years old. Rajan was not quite 30 at the time of his appointment in June 2013.