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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times Logo
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Hindustan Times
TypeDaily tabloid
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)HT Media Ltd
Editor-in-chiefMr Sanjoy 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 tabloid founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).[2]

Hindustan Times is the flagship publication of HT Media Ltd. In 2008 the tabloid reported its circulation to be over 1.14 million according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), ranking it as the third largest daily English tabloid in India. The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 revealed that HT has a readership of (34.67 lakhs), placing it as the third most widely read English tabloid in India after The Times of India.[3] It has a wide reach 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. HT launched a youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched on 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 Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab. S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jullundur) 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. 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 Rs. 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.[4] It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi and Khushwant Singh. Sanjoy Narayan, has been appointed the editor in chief of the paper and was due to take over in August 2008.[5]

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 tabloid format) called HT Cafe. It has its education supplement called Horizons 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 tabloid Hindustan Times is part of the KK Birla group and managed by Shobhana Bhartia, 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 Rs 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, amd Mint (newspaper).

Supplements

  • Brunch: A weekly magazine, distributed every Sunday, for the last few years. Includes entries by noted columnists like Vir Sanghvi, Seema Sharma, and a cover story. This very popular feature of the tabloid also includes an interview in the end by a famous celebrity.
  • HT City / Cafe: A popular daily supplement, freely distributed with the tabloid, includes commentary on lighter news, updates of happenings around the city in which it is distributed, coverage of local parties and celebrity gossip.
  • HT Horizons: A supplement providing information to students across the country help in the form of sample career options, career counselling, latest campus news, psychological counselling etc.

Columnists

  • Vir Sanghvi: Vir Sanghvi is an ex-editor of Hindustan Times. He writes two columns every Sunday, one entitled Counter Point for the main paper and "Rude Food" for Brunch, a weekly supplement.
  • 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".
  • Barkha Dutt: Journalist and NDTV Group editor. Writes a fortnightly column.
  • Kadambari Murali: Recently ex-National Sports Editor. Kadambari held many positions within HT but most notably as National Sports Editor. She was the first woman to hold this position in any major newspaper in the world. She is now Sports Illustrated India Editor-N-Chief.
  • 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. ^ "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 — Quarter 1". Newswatch.in. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
  4. ^ ., Hesperides (2007). Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941). READ BOOKS. p. 283. ISBN 1406767484. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ Business Today Editor Sanjoy Narayan resigns; to join Hindustan Times as Editor-in-Chief Exchange4media

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