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 The April 2011 redesigned front page of The New Indian Express | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Express Publications (Madurai) Limited |
| Publisher | Express Publications |
| Editor-in-chief | Santwana Bhattacharya |
| Founded | 1932 inMadras,British India, Bifurcated fromThe Indian Express and renamed in 13 August 1999 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Chennai – 600 058 |
| OCLC number | 844203788 |
| Website | newindianexpress.com |
The New Indian Express is an Indian English-languagebroadsheet daily newspaper published by theChennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 asThe Indian Express, under the ownership of Chennai-basedP. Varadarajulu Naidu.
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Santwana Bhattacharya was appointed Editor-in-Chief on 1 July 2022,[1] replacing G.S. Vasu.
Indian Express was first published on 5 September 1932, inMadras (nowChennai) by anAyurvedic doctor andIndian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the samepress where he ran theTamil Nadu Tamil weekly. But soon, on account of financial difficulties, he sold it toS. Sadanand, founder ofThe Free Press Journal, another English newspaper.
In 1933,The Indian Express opened its second office inMadurai and launched theTamil dailyDinamani on 11 September 1934. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price, but later sold part of his stake in the form of convertibledebentures to Ramnath Goenka due to financial difficulties. WhenThe Free Press Journal further went into financial decline in 1935, Sadanand lost ownership ofIndian Express after a long controversial court battle with Goenka, where blows were exchanged. Finally, a year later, Goenka bought the rest of the 26 per cent stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under his control, who took the already anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights.[citation needed] At that time it had to face stiff competition from the well-establishedThe Hindu and theMail, besides other prominent newspapers. In the late 1930s, the circulation was no more than 2,000.[citation needed]
In 1939 Goenka bought outAndhra Prabha, a prominentTelugu daily. It gained the nameThree Musketeers for the three dailies.[citation needed] In 1940 the whole premises were gutted by fire.The Hindu, its rival, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offering its recently vacated premises in Madras at 2, Mount Road later to become the landmarkExpress Estates.[citation needed] This relocation helped theExpress obtain better high-speed printing machines.
In later years,Goenka started theMumbai edition with the landmarkExpress Towers as his office when theMorning Standard was bought by him in 1944. Two years later it became the Mumbai edition ofThe Indian Express. Later on, editions were started in cities likeMadurai (1957),Bangalore (1965) andAhmedabad (1968). TheFinancial Express was launched in 1961 from Mumbai, a Bangalore edition ofAndhra Prabha was launched in 1965, andGujarati dailiesLok Satta andJansatta in 1952, from Ahmedabad and Baroda.
TheDelhi edition started was when the Tej group'sIndian News Chronicle was acquired in 1951, which from 1953 became the Delhi edition ofIndian Express. In 1990 it bought the Sterling group of magazines and, along with it, theGentleman magazine.
After Goenka's demise in 1991, two of the family members split the group intoIndian Express Mumbai with all the north Indian editions, while the southern editions were grouped as Express Publications (Madurai) Limited withChennai as headquarters.
The New Indian Express is now published from all 22 major cities inAndhra Pradesh,Karnataka,Kerala,Odisha,Tamil NaduTelangana and Morning Standard fromDelhi.
The New Indian Express has a net paid circulation of 595,618 copies.[2]NIE achieves its biggest penetration (paid sales per head of population) in the state of Kerala. In Kerala, the newspaper has a circulation of 1,24,005 copies. It claims to be the first Indian newspaper to give insurance benefits to its subscribers.[citation needed] It is published in a geographical area that covers approximately 24 per cent of the national population.The New Sunday Express (the Sunday edition of the NIE) is arguably the flagship publication, with magazine supplements incorporating national and international themes and sections on developmental issues, society, politics, literature, arts, cinema, travel, lifestyle, sports, new-age living, self-development and entertainment.
During late 2007/early 2008, there was a big shakeout of editorial staff, with many old hands leaving to make way for new. In April 2008, the newspaper underwent a major, drastic and exceptionally modern layout and design makeover and launched a huge advertising campaign.
In October 2007,The New Indian Express launched a 40-page Friday magazine supplement (now, total colour) calledIndulge exclusively for the Chennai edition. In September 2010, the lifestyle pullout began a Bangalore edition.[3]
The New Indian Express Group of Companies also publishesDinamani in Tamil and the following magazines:Cinema Express (Tamil),Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika (Malayalam), in addition to the websiteEdex Live.[4]