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 Front page of theMumbai edition ofThe Free Press Journal (30 October 2024) | |
| Type | DailyNewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Indian National Press Bombay Pvt. Ltd. |
| Editor-in-chief | G. L. Lakhotia |
| Associate editor | S. S. Dhawan |
| Founded | 1928[1] |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Free Press House, Free Press Journal Marg, 215,Nariman Point,Mumbai 400021 |
| Circulation | 154,000 |
| Sister newspapers | Navshakti |
| Website | freepressjournal |
The Free Press Journal is an IndianEnglish-language daily newspaper that was established in 1928 bySwaminathan Sadanand, who also acted as its first editor. First produced to complement a news agency, theFree Press of India, it was a supporter of theIndependence movement. It is published inMumbai, India.
The founder editor was Swaminathan Sadanand.[2] It was founded in 1928 to support Free Press of India, a news agency that dispatched "nationalist" news to its subscribers.[3] In the colonial context, Colaco describes it as "an independent newspaper supporting nationalist causes". She quotes Lakshmi[who?] as saying that "The nationalist press marched along with the freedom fighters".[4] It played a significant role in mobilising sympathetic public opinion during the independence movement.[5]
Among its founders wasStalin Srinivasan who foundedManikkodi in 1932.Bal Thackeray worked as a cartoonist for the newspaper until being removed from the job. Thackeray then foundedMarmik.[6] According toStephen E. Atkins he was removed "after a political dispute over Thackeray's attacks on southern Indian immigration into Bombay"[7] Notable cartoonistR. K. Laxman joined The Free Press Journal as a twenty-year-old. He was Thackeray's colleague. Three years into the job, he was asked by his proprietor not to make fun at communists, Laxman left and joinedThe Times of India.[8]
It supported the practice rights of Jewish doctors who had taken refuge in Mumbai fleeing persecution inGermany, in the 1930s. Indian doctors opposed their right to practice claiming that Germany did not have reciprocal arrangements for Indian doctors.The Free Press Journal argued that this was against the "ancient Indian traditions of affording shelter from persecution".[9]
a highly respected journalist whose contribution to the growth of journalism is commendable.
