Gujarat Samachar
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Lok Prakashan Limited |
| Publisher | Shreyans Shah |
| Editor | Shreyans Shah |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Headquarters | Ahmedabad, India |
| Circulation | 4,642,000 (Indian Readership Survey 2014) |
| Website | gujaratsamachar |
Gujarat Samachar is a Gujarati-language daily newspaper published in India. Its headquarters are in Ahmedabad with a branch in Surat. It is distributed from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Mehsana, Bhuj and New York City.
The paper was founded in 1932, and acquired by Shantilal Shah (1920-c.1984) in 1952.[1][2] Its first issue was published on 16 January 1932.[3]
Television channel
It also launched a Gujarati News Channel in December 2012, GSTV.
References
- ^ Jeffrey, Robin. India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Technology and the Indian Language Press, 1977-1999, p. 120 (2000) ("In Gujurat in the 1950s, successful business families ... acquired both the big old nationalist newspapers, Gujarat Samachar, founded in 1932, and Sandesh, founded in 1923.")
- ^ Umat, Ajay (5 November 2011). Lady Luck of Gujarat Samachar passes away, Times of India
- ^ Thaker, Mahesh (2011). Thaker, Dhirubhai (ed.). ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ [Gujarati Encyclopedia]. Vol. VI (Part 2) (2nd ed.). Ahmedabad: Gujarati Vishwakosh Trust. p. 218.
External links
- Gujarat Samachar official site (in Gujarati)
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