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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times Logo
The 28 March 2010 front page of
Hindustan Times
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)HT Media Ltd
Editor-in-chiefSanjoy Narayan
Founded1924
Political alignmentCentrist[1]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters18-20 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001
India
Circulation1,143,000 Daily
OCLC number231696742
WebsiteHindustantimes.com
Hindustan Times House, New Delhi

Hindustan Times (HT) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).[2] The newspaper is owned by Rajya Sabha M.P., Shobhana Bhartia.[3][4]

It is the flagship publication of HT Media Ltd. Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India, by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.4 million copies as of 2010. The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012 revealed that HT has approximately 37.67 lac (3.767 million) readers, making it the second most widely read English newspaper in India after The Times of India,[5] readers of either paper can in practice be readers of the other as well. It is popular in northern India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal and Chandigarh. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006 and that of Nagpur edition was discontinued from September 1997. HT launched a youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000.

Other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan (Hindi Daily), Nandan (monthly children's magazine) and Kadambani (monthly literary magazine). The media group owns a radio channel, Fever, and organises an annual Luxury Conference which has featured speakers like designer Diane von Fürstenberg, shoemaker Christian Louboutin, Gucci CEO Robert Polet and Cartier MD Patrick Normand. Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family.

History

'Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.[6] S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jalandhar) were made in charge of the newspaper. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Master 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 with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) on the editor's panel.[7] 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, C. R. Reddy (Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy), T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni, Bernard Haton, Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya, Dr Saifuddin Kichlu and Rubi Waston etc.

"Sadar Panikkar launched the Hindustan Times as a serious nationalist newspaper. As an Oxonian, historian, and litterateur, Panikkar must have hoped to make his paper eventually more than an Akali sheet. He became the editor and funds flowed freely from activist Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway. In two years Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up. The paper was saved from an untimely demise when Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi." - TJS George, Lessons in Journalism, 2007, Viva Books, New Delhi.

Malaviya raised ₹50,000 rupees to acquire the Hindustan Times along with the help of nationalist leaders Lajpat Rai and M. R. Jayakar and industrialist G. D. Birla, who paid most of the cash. Birla took full control of the paper in 1933. The paper continues to be owned by the Birla family.

It has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted "Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941)" at Allahabad High Court.[8] It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar, B.G.Verghese and Khushwant Singh. Sanjoy Narayan, has been appointed the editor in chief of the paper and was due to take over in August 2008.[9] Recently[when?] the editorial page has seen a major makeover and has been named "comment" to bring in more flexibility and some-what less seriousness to the page.

HT Mumbai edition

HT Mumbai has an eight-page daily lifestyle supplement (in broadsheet format) called HT Cafe. It has its education supplement called "HT Education" on Wednesdays. The paper also comes with a magazine on Sundays called Brunch. The Mumbai edition is managed by Mohit Ahuja, an alumnus of NMIMS, Bombay. The resident editor in Mumbai is Soumya Bhattacharya.

Ownership

The Delhi-based English daily Hindustan Times is part of the KK Birla group and managed by Shobhana Bhartia, Rajya Sabha member of Congress party and daughter of the industrialist KK Birla and granddaughter of GD Birla. It is owned by HT Media Ltd. The KK Birla group owns a 69 per cent stake in HT Media, currently valued at ₹834 crore. When Shobhana Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the first woman chief executive of a national newspaper. Shobhana has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP from Congress Party.

Along with Hindustan Times, HT Media owns Desimartini, Fever 104 FM, and Mint (newspaper).

Supplements

  • Brunch
  • HT City and HT Cafe
  • HT Education
  • HT Estates
  • Shine Jobs
  • HT Livebhopal

Columnists

  • D.K. Issar : former Chief Reporter, wrote on a variety of issues
  • Barkha Dutt: Journalist and NDTV Group editor. Writes a fortnightly column.
  • Karan Thapar : Currently the president of Infotainment Television and one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers, Karan Thapar writes the weekly column "Sunday Sentiments".
  • Manas Chakravarty: Capital market analyst for Mint. Writes weekly column "Loose Canon" on Sundays'.
  • Poonam Saxena: She is the editor of Brunch, the Hindustan Times Sunday magazine. She does a weekly TV review column, "Small Screen".
  • Indrajit Hazra: A novelist and a senior editor at Hindustan Times, Hazra writes the weekly column "Red Herring".
  • Sonal Kalra: An author and editor of HT City, the daily entertainment and lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times, Writes the weekly column "A Calmer You".
  • Khushwant Singh: An editorial writer whose column "With Malice towards One and All" appears in the Saturday edition.
  • Samar Halarnkar: Editor-at-large, writes on a variety of issues and also runs a food blog on the Hindustan Times website.

See also

References

  1. ^ India - World Newspapers and Magazines - Worldpress.org
  2. ^ About Us. HT Media. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  3. ^ http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/voices/this-is-not-journalism-as-we-know-it
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/05/world/indian-leader-faces-a-test-at-the-polls.html
  5. ^ "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2011 — Quarter 2" (PDF). Newswatch.in. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
  6. ^ "HindustanTimes".
  7. ^ "Shobhana Bhartia wants to benchmark HT with the best in the world". Business Today. 14 October 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  8. ^ ., Hesperides (2007). Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941). READ BOOKS. p. 283. ISBN 1-4067-6748-4. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. ^ Business Today Editor Sanjoy Narayan resigns; to join Hindustan Times as Editor-in-Chief Exchange4media

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