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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | HT Media Ltd |
| Publisher | Ajay Kumar Jain |
| Editor-in-chief | Shashi Shekhar |
| Founded | 12 April 1936; 88 years ago (12 April 1936) |
| Language | Hindi |
| Headquarters | Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001 |
| Country | India |
| Circulation | 1,666,724 (as of April 2023)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Hindustan Times Mint |
| Website | www |
Hindustan (IAST:Hindustāna) is an IndianHindi-language daily newspaper. According toWAN-IFRA, it ranked13th in the world by circulation in 2016 and per theAudit Bureau of Circulations was6th in India in 2022.[1][2][3]Madan Mohan Malaviya launched it in 1936.[4] It is published by Hindustan Media Ventures Limited. Earlier it was part ofHT Media Ltd group, which spun off its Hindi business into a separate company named Hindustan Media Ventures Limited in December 2009.[5]
It ranks as the second most-read daily in the country.Hindustan has 21 editions acrossHindi belt. They are spread across Delhi, Haryana (Faridabad), Bihar (Patna,Muzaffarpur,Gaya,Bhagalpur andPurnea), Jharkhand (Ranchi,Jamshedpur andDhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow,Varanasi,Meerut,Agra,Allahabad,Gorakhpur,Bareilly,Moradabad,Aligarh, andKanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun,Haridwar,Haldwani). Apart from these, the paper is also available in key towns like Mathura, Saharanpur, Faizabad. The major editions ofHindustan are available online inepaper format.
Hindustan dominates inBihar with a readership of about 5 million (as per the IRS 2011, Q4). It commands a massive 73% share of the Hindi readership market of Bihar. On 24 April 2018,Hindustan launched its 5th edition inPurnea. On 13 May 2016,Hindustan's reporter,Rajdev Ranjan, was shot to death in a drive-by shooting.[6]