Kannada Prabha

Kannada Prabha

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Rajeev Chandrasekhar BJP M.P, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia
Publisher	Kannada Prabha Publication Pvt Ltd
Editor	Ravi Hegde
Founded	Ramnath Goenka
Political alignment	Right Wing
Language	Kannada
Headquarters	Bengaluru, Shivamogga, Mangaluru, Hyderabad, Hubballi, Belagavi
Website	Kannada Prabha

Kannada Prabha is a morning daily jointly owned by Jupiter Capital a company founded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar who is Bharatiya Janata Party’s member of parliament and The New Indian Express Group, is a major Kannada newspaper in Karnataka. The tag line on its masthead is The Most Powerful Kannada Newspaper. It was founded by Ramnath Goenka.

History

Started on November 4, 1967 with one edition in Bengaluru, today this newspaper, headquartered in Bengaluru is spread across the state with 5 other publication centers viz. Gulbarga, Mangalore, Shivamogga, Hubballi, Belagavi and Kalaburagi.

Jupiter Capital, owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar purchased a 51% stake in the newspaper in 2011. Ravi Hegde took charge as Editor in Chief in January 2017. Kannadaprabha gained its credibility under his editorship.

Kannada Prabha has won the prestigious Karnataka Media Academy award for the Best Designed Newspaper successively, for three times since the inception of the award in 2005.

Sister Publications

• The New Indian Express, an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper
• Sakhi, a fortnightly Kannada language women's interest magazine

See also

• List of Kannada-language newspapers
• List of Kannada-language magazines
• List of newspapers in India
• Media in Karnataka
• Media of India

External links

• Kannada Prabha ePaper