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The 9 July 2021 front page ofThe Economic Times | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The Times Group |
| Publisher | Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. |
| Editor | Bodhisatva Ganguli |
| Founded | 6 March 1961; 64 years ago (1961-03-06)[1][2] |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Times House,DN Road,Mumbai, India |
| Country | India |
| Circulation | 269,882 daily[3] (as of 2023) |
| Sister newspapers | |
| ISSN | 0013-0389 |
| OCLC number | 61311680 |
| Website | economictimes (BFSI vertical) |
The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focuseddaily newspaper.Published byThe Times Group,The Economic Times began publication in 1961 and it is sold in all major cities in India. As of 2012, it is the world's second-most widely read English-languagebusiness newspaper, afterThe Wall Street Journal,[4] with a daily readership of over 800,000.[5] According to theAudit Bureau of Circulations, the newspaper'scirculation averaged 269,882 copies during the latter half of 2022.[3] It is published simultaneously from 19 cities:Mumbai,Bangalore,Delhi,Chennai,Kolkata,Lucknow,Hyderabad,Jaipur,Ahmedabad,Nagpur,Chandigarh,Pune,Patna,Ranchi,Indore,Bhopal,Bhubaneshwar,Kochi, andGoa. Its main content is based on theIndian economy, international finance, share prices, prices of commodities as well as other matters related to finance. The founding editor of the paper when it was launched in 1961 was P. S. Hariharan. The current editor ofThe Economic Times is Bodhisattva Ganguli.[6]
In June 2009,The Economic Times launched a television channel calledET Now.[7] In 2018, the house ofThe Economic Times launched a member-only platform called ET Prime.[8] It claims to be a business storytelling platform. ET Prime's current editor (2022) is Shishir Prasad.[9]
The Economic Times has a portfolio management tool called ET Portfolio.[10] TheEconomic Times also launched ETHRWorld and ETBrandEquity. Author-Publicist Aatish Jaisinghani has also been featured onEconomic Times for his take on the shift in audience dynamics and the impact on brand remunerations with National brand campaignsm[11] as well as thriving in female dominated industries on World PR Day.[12]
In 2017,The Economic Times launched the ETHindi website for the business news in Hindi. In 2022,The Economic Times launched its website in the seven other Indian languages, creating: ETGujarati; ETMarathi; ETBengali; ETTamil; ETMalayalam; ETTelugu; and ETKannada.