The New Indian Express
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The New Indian Express is a newspaper with its head office based in Chennai, India. It started life in 1931 as the Indian Express under the ownership of Chennai-based Veradharajulu Naidu. In 1999, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, Goenka's family split the group into two separate companies. The northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained the Indian Express title but the southern editions became The New Indian Express. Although the two newspapers occasionally share articles they are now very much different corporate entities.
The New Indian Express is now published from all major cities in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, including Chennai (Madras), Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kochi. It also brings out an edition in the state of Orissa. In total, it publishes from 14 centres in the south. Its various supplements, which appear on a weekly or fortnightly basis, include pull-outs on careers, youth, women and education.
In terms of the area it circulates in, the New Indian Express covers approximately 24% of the total national population and, according to the National Readership Survey in India for 2006, was the 6th biggest English language newspaper in India in terms of readership: 1.05 million readers. The New Sunday Express (the Sunday edition of the NIE, edited by Sushila Ravindranath) is arguably the flagship publication, with magazine supplements incorporating both national and international themes and sections on arts, leisure, travel, lifestyle, sport, new age living, books, self-development, entertainment and development issues. The Audit Bureau of Circulation figures for 2005 indicated that paid sales (as opposed to "readership" or copies that are distributed for free) for the Sunday edition were 240,000 copies (230,000 for the weekday edition), although the paper itself claims these figures to be nearer to 300,000. The NIE achieves its biggest penetration, in terms of paid sales per head of population in the state of Kerala.
The NIE is now famous for articles by T. J. S. George and S. Gurumurthy and is managed by Manoj Kumar Sonthalia, from Chennai. Journalist and editorial advisor of the New Indian Express T. J. S. George, won the prestigious C. H. Mohammad Koya Journalism Award in 2005 for his outstanding contribution to the field.
The New Indian Express Group of Companies also publishes Dinamani in Tamil and Kannada Prabha in Kannada and these magazines: Cinema Express (Tamil), Malayalam Vaarika (Malayalam) and Tamilan Express (Tamil). The Group runs the following websites:
www.indiavarta.com
www.newindpress.com
www.dinamani.com
www.kannadaprabha.com
www.andhraprabha.com
www.apweekly.com
www.cinemaexpress.com
www.malayalamvarikha.com
www.tamilanexpress.com
[edit] External links
- Official site
- S. Gurumurthy's articles [1]
- T. J. S. George's articles [2]
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