From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
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The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language
broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Express
Publications. It was founded in 1932 as the Indian Ex-
press, under the ownership of Chennai-based P.
Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of the
then owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka family split
the group into two separate companies. Initially, the two
groups shared the Indian Express title, and editorial and
other resources. But in 13 August 1999, the northern edi-
tions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained and renamed
Indian Express as The Indian Express, while the southern
Express.
editions became The New Indian Express Today, the two
newspapers and the two companies are separate entities.
The newspaper is known for its intrepid and anti-estab-
lishment tone. Express Publications (Madurai) Limited
publishes the prestigious English language newspaper
The New Indian Express from 21 centres in Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Orissa.
History
Indian Express was first published on September 5, 1932
in Madras (now Chennai) by an Ayurvedic doctor and In-
The November 6, 2008 front page of dian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu,
The New Indian Express
publishing from the same press at which he ran the
Type Daily newspaper Tamil
’Tamil Nadu’ Tamil weekly. But soon, on account of finan-
cial difficulties, he sold it to S Sadanand, founder of The
Format Broadsheet
Free Press Journal, another English newspaper.
Owner Express Publications (Madurai) Limited In 1933, The Indian Express opened its second office
Editor-in- Prabhu Chawla in Madurai and launched the Tamil daily Dinamani on
chief September 11, 1934. Sadanand introduced several inno-
vations and reduced the price, but later sold part of his
Founded 1932 in Madras, British India, Bifurcated
from Indian Express and renamed in
stake in the form of convertible debentures to Ramnath
August 13, 1999 Goenka due to financial difficulties. Later, when The Free
Press Journal further went into financial decline in 1935,
Political Centrist
Sadanand lost ownership of Indian Express after a long
alignment
controversial court battle with Goenka, where blows
Language English were exchanged between some of the parties. Finally, a
Headquarters Express Gardens, II Main Road,
year later, Goenka bought the rest of the 26 per cent
Chennai - 600 058 stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under the con-
trol of Goenka, who took the already anti-establishment
Circulation 309,252 daily (source: ABC January-June
tone of the paper to greater heights.[citation needed] Also at
2009).
that time it had to face stiff competition from a well es-
OCLC 243883379 tablished The Hindu and the Mail, besides other promi-
number nent newspapers. In the late 1930s, the circulation was no
more than 2,000[citation needed].
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In 1939 Goenka bought out Andhra Prabha, another scribers[citation needed]. The New Indian Express is pub-
prominent Telugu Daily. Later it gained the name Three lished in a geographical area that covers approximately
Musketeers for the three dailies[citation needed]. In 1940 the 24 per cent of the national population. The New Sunday
whole premises were gutted by fire. The Hindu, its rival, Express (the Sunday edition of the NIE) is arguably the
helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by get- flagship publication, with magazine supplements incor-
ting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran’s porating both national and international themes and sec-
press and later offering its recently vacated premises in tions on developmental issues, society, politics, litera-
Madras at 2, Mount Road later to become the landmark ture, arts, cinema, travel, lifestyle, sports, new-age living,
Express Estates[citation needed]. This relocation also helped self-development and entertainment.
the Express obtain better high speed printing machines,
while some claimed the Goenka had deliberately set fire
to escape financial embarrassment[citation needed].
Recent changes
In later years, Goenka started the Mumbai edition
with the landmark Express Towers as his office when
the Morning Standard was bought by him in 1944. Two
years later it became the Mumbai edition of The Indian Ex-
press. Later on, editions were started in several cities like
Madurai (1957), Bangalore (1965) and Ahmedabad (1968).
The Financial Express was launched in 1961 from Mumbai,
Kannada Prabha (Kannada Daily) from Bangalore in 1965
and a Bangalore edition of the Telugu Daily Andhra Prab-
ha, and Gujarati dailies Lok Satta and Jansatta in 1952, from
Ahmedabad and Baroda.
The Delhi edition started was when the Tej group’s
Indian News Chronicle was acquired in 1951, which from
1953 became the Delhi edition of Indian Express. In 1990 it
bought the Sterling group of magazines, and along with New Mastheads for Weekdays,Saturdays and Sundays in 2008
it the Gentleman magazine.
After Goenka’s demise in 1991, two of the family During late 2007/early 2008, there was a big shakeout of
members split the group into Indian Express Mumbai editorial staff, with many old hands leaving to make way
with all the North Indian editions, while the Southern for new. In April 2008, the newspaper underwent a ma-
editions were grouped as Express Madurai Ltd with Chen- jor, drastic and exceptionally modern layout and design
nai as headquarters. makeover and launched a huge advertising campaign.
In October 2007, The New Indian Express launched a
Editions 40-page Friday magazine supplement (now, total colour)
called "Indulge" exclusively for the Chennai edition. In
The New Indian Express is now published from all major
September 2010, the lifestyle pullout began publishing its
cities in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Ker-
Bangalore edition.
ala besides Orissa, including Chennai (Madras), Coimbat-
It also renamed all the city supplements, calling them
ore , Hyderabad, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi,
City Express and focusing more on the respective city’s
Bhubaneswar Shimoga, Madurai and Tiruchirappalli. On
culture and lifestyle, rather than hard news. Its other
the whole, it publishes from 22 centres in the south.
supplements, which appear on a weekly or fortnightly
basis, are on career and education. The 24-page educa-
Circulation tion supplement, called edex, was launched in early 2010.
At present, The New Indian Express is the only national
daily which publishes news of far-flung Andaman and Ni-
cobar Islands on an everyday basis. The TNIE has a staffer
at Port Blair, the capital city of the remote archipelago.
Old Mast head from 1999 till 2008
The New Indian Express has a net paid circulation of Web sites
309,252 copies (Source: ABC J-J, 2009). The NIE achieves The New Indian Express Group of Companies also pub-
its biggest penetration (paid sales per head of popula- lishes Dinamani in Tamil and Kannada Prabha in Kannada
tion) in the state of Kerala. It also claims to be the first and the following magazines: Cinema Express (Tamil),
Indian newspaper to give insurance benefits to its sub-
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Malayalam Vaarika (Malayalam) and Tamilan Express
(Tamil). The Group runs the following websites:
See also
• http://www.expressbuzz.com (English) • Indian Express Group
• http://www.indiavarta.com • The Indian Express
• http://www.dinamani.com (Tamil) • List of newspapers in India by circulation
• http://www.kannadaprabha.com (Kannada) • List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• http://www.andhraprabha.com (Telugu)
• http://www.apweekly.com (Telugu)
• http://www.cinemaexpress.com (Tamil)
External links
• http://www.malayalamvarikha.com (Malayalam) • The New Indian Express website
• http://www.tamilanexpress.com (Tamil) • Epaper
• S. Gurumurthy’s articles [1]
• T. J. S. George’s articles [2]
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