HISTORY

OF
NEWSPAPER

By: Adnan kudrati

INTRODUCTION
The first major newspaper in IndiaThe Bengal
Gazettewas started in 1780 under the British Raj
by James Augustus Hickey.Other newspapers such

as The India Gazette, The Calcutta Gazette, The

Madras Courier (1785), The Bombay Herald (1789)
etc. soon followed. These newspapers carried news
of the areas under the British rule. The Bombay
Samachar, founded in 1822 and printed in Gujarati
is the oldest newspaper in Asia still in print. On May
30, 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first
Hindi-language newspaper published in India,
started from Calcutta (now Kolkata), published
every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.
The Times of India was founded in 1838 as The
Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce by
Bennett, Coleman and Company, a colonial
enterprise now owned by an Indian conglomerate.
The Times Group publishes The Economic Times
(launched in 1961), Navbharat Times (Hindi
language), and the Maharashtra Times (Marathi
language).
In the 1950s 214 daily newspapers were published
in the country. Out of these, 44 were English
language dailies while the rest were published in
various regional and national languages. This
number rose to 2,856 dailies in 1990 with 209
English dailies.

The total number of newspapers published in the

country reached 35,595 newspapers by 1993
(3,805 dailies).
The main regional newspapers of India include the
Malayalam language Malayala Manorama
(published from: Kerala, daily circulation: 673,000),
the Hindi-language Dainik Jagran (published from:
Uttar Pradesh, daily circulation in 2006: 580,000),
and the Anandabazar Patrika (published from:
Kolkata, daily circulation in 2013 ( ABC Jan - Jun
2013 ) : 11,93,000).

NAME OF NEWSPAPERS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Dainik Bhaskar
Times of India
The Economic Times
Nai Dunia
Hindustan Times
The Hindu

7. The Indian Express

8. Free Press
9. Dainik Jagran
10.Mumbai Mirror

DAINIK BHASKAR
Dainik Bhaskar (Hindi: ) is an Indian
Hindi-language daily newspaper that is now the
largest circulated daily newspaper of India It is
owned by Dainik Bhaskar Group (D B Corp Ltd.),
the largest Print Media Company of India. Started
in Bhopal in 1958, it expanded in 1983 with the
launch of Dainik Bhaskar's Indore edition. Today,
Dainik Bhaskar is present in 12 states with 40
editions.
Dainik Bhaskar was declared the world's 4th
largest circulated daily newspaper in 2013-14.

TIMES OF INDIA

The Times of India issued its first edition 3

November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal
of Commerce. The paper published Wednesdays
and Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur
Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian
Reformist, and contained news from Britain and the
world, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. J.E.
Brennan was its first editor.1QAZA In 1850, it
began to publish daily editions.
In 1860, editor Robert Knight (18251892) bought
the Indian shareholders' interests, merged with
rival Bombay Standard, and started India's first
news agency. It wired Times dispatches to papers
across the country and became the Indian agent
for Reuters news service. In 1861, he changed the
name from the Bombay Times and Standard to The
Times of India. Knight fought for a press free of
prior restraint or intimidation, frequently resisting
the attempts by governments, business interests,
and cultural spokesmen and led the paper to
national prominence. In the 19th century, this
newspaper company employed more than 800
people and had a sizeable circulation in India and
Europe.

THE ECONOMICS TIMES

The Economic Times is an English-language, Indian
daily newspaper published by the Bennett,
Coleman & Co. Ltd.. First published in 1961, it is
the world's second-most widely read Englishlanguage business newspaper, after the Wall Street
Journal, with a readership of over 800,000. The
Economic Times is published simultaneously from
12 cities Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai,
Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad,
Nagpur, Chandigarh, and Pune.
The Economic Times is headquartered in Mumbai
at The Times of India building. Its main content is
based on the Indian economy, international
finance, share prices, prices of commodities as well
as other matters related to finance. The foundereditor of the paper when it was launched in 1961

was P.S. Hariharan. The current editor of The

Economic Times is Bodhisattva Ganguli.

NAI DUNIA
NaiDunia (), is a Hindi newspaper owned by
NaiDunia Media Ltd. NaiDunia (meaning New
World) was born on 5 June 1947 at Indore, just
before the dawn of independent India, most aptly
timed and named. It was established by freedom
fighters Pandit Krishnakant Vyas and Mr
Krishnachandra Mudgal. Pandit Krishnakant vyas
was its first Chief Editor, also, along with the
founder. Further Mr Babu Labhahcnd Chhajlani,
Basantilal Sethia and Narendra Tiwari joined and

the newspaper then trod its path to popularity in

the most turbulent post-independence time.

HINDUSTAN TIMES
Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder
Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali
movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab
Province. S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S.
Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jalandhar) were made in
charge of the newspaper. Madan Mohan Malaviya
and Tara Singh were among the members of the
Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and
Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri.
K. M. Panikkar was its first editor; Devdas Gandhi
(son of Mahatma Gandhi) on the editor's panel, and
later editor. The opening ceremony was performed
by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924. The
first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi
(now Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained
writings and articles from C. F. Andrews, St. Nihal
Singh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, Cattamanchi
Ramalinga Reddy, T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni,
Bernard Haton, Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya, Dr

Saifuddin Kichlu and Rubi Waston etc.

THE HINDU
The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20
September 1878 as a weekly, by what was known
then as the Triplicane Six consisting of 4 law
students and 2 teachers:- T. T. Rangacharya, P. V.
Rangacharya, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba
Rao Pantulu, led by G. Subramania Iyer (a school
teacher from Tanjore district) and M.
Veeraraghavacharyar (a lecturer at Pachaiyappa's
College).

THE INDIAN EXPRESS

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian
daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by
Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after
the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in
1991, the group was split between the family
members. The southern editions taking the name
The New Indian Express, while the northern
editions, based in Mumbai, retaining the original
Indian Express name, with "The" prefixed to the
title. At present Shekhar Gupta is the Editor in
Chief of Indian Express Group.[2]
The Indian Express is published at nine locations
Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Kolkata, Vadodara,
Chandigarh, Lucknow and Ahmedabad.

FREE PRESS
Free Press of India was an Indian nationalistsupporting news agency founded in the 1920s by
Swaminathan Sadanand, during the period of the
British Raj. It was the first news agency owned and
managed by Indians. Beset by dubious business

acumen from the outset, and beholden to those

who financed it, the agency failed to obtain
substantial support from Indian-owned press and
hence closed down in 1935. It was revived briefly
between 1945 and 1947 before being stifled by the
government of the newly independent country. It
was at various times a supporter of the Swaraj
Party and, later, of the Responsive Cooperation
Party, as well as various business interests.

DAINIK JAGRAN
The newspaper was launched in 1942 in Jhansi
during the Indian freedom struggle (Quit India
movement) by Puran Chandra Gupta, a nationalist,
to voice nationalistic sentiments. Puran Chandra's
legacy was carried forward by literary stalwarts like
Narendra Mohan who has carried forward the
papers editorial legacy.

In 1947, a second edition made its appearance in

Kanpur. In a succession of planned expansions,
Rewa and Bhopal editions were added in 1953 and
1956. Gorakhpur was added in 1975, followed by
Varanasi, Allahabad, Meerut, Agra and Bareilly in
the 1980s, and finally Delhi in 1990. After this
Dainik Jagran ventured out into other states like
Uttarakhand, Haryana, Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab,
Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal. Puran
Chandra's vision was also realised through the
group's educational initiatives at both the junior
and senior levels.

MUMBAI MIRROR

Mumbai Mirror is a compact newspaper in the city

of Mumbai,[1] with a daily circulation of
approximate 700,000 copies.[2] Its first issue was
published on May 30, 2005 by the Times Group,
the publishers of The Times of India newspaper.
The newspaper was launched at the Gateway of
India by Vilasrao Deshmukh, the then Chief
Minister of [[Maharashtra],] and Abhishek
Bachchan on May 29, 2005 in an elaborate
ceremony.
Mumbai Mirror was launched by The Times Group
after the Hindustan Times and DNA announced
plans to enter the Mumbai market. Mumbai Mirror
was advertised and publicised in its own sister
media networks like The Times of India, Bombay
Times, and Radio Mirchi. Mumbai Mirror now has
sister editions in Pune, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.

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