HINDI NEWSPAPER

The largest number of newspapers in India is published in Hindi, followed by English. In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, of which 5364 are daily newspapers. Among those are Hindi newspapers as well as newspapers in over a hundred other languages. 20.589 newspapers are published in Hindi, 7.596 in English, while other languages such as Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Tamil have an average of 2500 newspapers.

The press in India is free, although sometimes it is difficult for a media company to get started. There are more than forty (local) news agencies in India. The two major news agencies are Press Trust of India (PTI) and United News of India (UNI). Both of these agencies publish Hindi newspapers.

THE HINDU, AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER IN INDIA

One of the leading newspapers in Southern India is The Hindu. It is an English-language newspaper, founded in 1878 on the principles of fairness and justice. In 1889 it became a daily, before that time it was a weekly journal. The Hindu was founded by six young men, their leader was a radical social reformer and schoolteacher: G. Subramania Aiyer. Aiyer was just 23 years old when he started the newspaper in September 1878. His five friends were also very young: between the ages of 20 and 24.

The Hindu Newspaper

Back then, the British and their press controlled colonial India, and to counter the leading British opinion, the "The Triplicane Six” created their own independent newspaper. They planned to not only express public opinion, but also to mould and influence it. However, they tried to maintain a more or less unbiased and neutral stance with regard to the British. In the beginning, the Madras-headquartered newspaper was published just once a week, on Wednesday evening. Over the years it developed into a daily newspaper.

The twentieth century brought The Hindu good as well as bad times, with subscriptions sometimes falling due to, for example, political developments.
Since the late 1980s, the newspaper has undergone a slight change. A younger generation of the family took over. In 2003, Worldpress.org listed The Hindu a left-leaning independent newspaper. This change in political orientation usually is linked to sir N. Ram, who was appointed editor-in-chief in June 2003.

In the Blogosphere (blogging community), which is very popular in India and probably a bigger medium nowadays than the written press, especially for young Indians, The Hindu is often referred to as The Chindu. This is also thanks to current chief in editor N Ram, who apparently does a regular pr for the Communist party of China.

DAINIK BASHKAR, A HINDI NEWSPAPER

Dainik Bhaskar is one of the leading Hindi newspapers in India. It is published from many cities in Northern India, and its current editor is Ramesh Chandra Agrawal. Dainik Bhaskar is part of the Bhaskar Group, an Indian business conglomerate that is strongly present in textiles, oils, Internet services, television and entertainment. The Bashkar Group is at the top of the printed media industry in India, thanks to its successful newspapers Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar, a newspaper in the Gujarati language.

Because of his large share in the Indian media landscape, various sources call chief editor Ramesh Chandra Agrawal a media baron. The Bashkar group has recently expanded by starting a partnership with the Zee Group. Together they launched DNA, short for Daily News and Analytics, which is a digital news forum. Have a look at it on: www.dnaindia.com

Read Hindi Newspapers:

Dainik Bhaskar: www.bhaskar.com
Haribhoomi: www.haribhoomi.com
Naidunia: www.naidunia.com
Amarujala: www.amarujala.com

Read English language Indian Newspapers:

The Times of India: www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The Indian Express: www.indianexpress.com
Business Standard: www.business-standard.com
The Tribune: www.tribuneindia.com

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