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Gujarat Samachar
ગુજરાત સમાચાર
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Lok Prakashan Limited
PublisherShreyans Shah
EditorShreyans Shah
Founded1932
LanguageGujarati
HeadquartersAhmedabad. India
Circulation46,42,000 (Indian Readership Survey 2014)
Websitewww.gujaratsamachar.com

Gujarat Samachar is a Gujarati language daily newspaper in India.

It has headquarter in Ahmedabad. It has one branch in Surat as well and distributes editions 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]

TV Channel

It also launched a Gujarati News Channel in December 2012, GSTV.

Criticism

Criticised for Headlines on Pulwama attack: " Desh ni janta sarkar ne puchhe chhe, how is the josh?”[4]

References

  1. ^ 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.")
  2. ^ Umat, Ajay (5 November 2011). Lady Luck of Gujarat Samachar passes away, Times of India
  3. ^ Thaker, Mahesh (2011). Thaker, Dhirubhai (ed.). ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ [Gujarati Encyclopedia]. Vol. VI (Part 2) (2nd ed.). Ahmedabad: Gujarati Vishwakosh Trust. p. 218.
  4. ^ "'Bhakts' target 'Gujarat Samachar' for mocking Narendra Modi's inability to stop terror attack in Kashmir, make editor Shreyans Shah's phone number public, but paper sells like warm 'dhokla'". IJR. 16 February 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.