Hindi Media

In an interview to business daily Mint Editor-in-chief of India Today Aroon Purie has stated that the group is contemplating the launch of a Hindi daily. The group also plans to expand further into regional media space. A few months ago Mint has flashed the news that the group plans to launch a Hindi daily which will be named after its flagship news channel Aaj Tak. You can read the complete interview here http://www.livemint.com/2011/05/04222347/Aroon-Purie--Our-plan-is-to-e.html?d=1

hindimedia1@gmail.com Updated list of recent and proposed launches is as follows: Metro7days (daily) Mumbai May 22 Lokmat Samachar (daily) (Jalgaon) May 15 (may change) Lokmat Samachar (daily) (Pune) Date not finalised Lokmat Samachar (daily) (Mumbai) Date not finalised Hamwatan (weekly) Bhopal June 2011 Tehelka Hindi (magazine) National edition June 2011 Swabhiman Times (daily) Gwalior Date not finalised Hindustan (daily) Moradabad July 2011 (proposed) Status update: Land purchased Hindustan (daily) Aligarh Date not finalsied Dainik Bhaskar (daily) Dhanbad April 17 (launched) Hindustan Jobs (weekly) National edition May 8

hindimedia1@gmail.com So after Delhi now its turn of Mumbai. The financial capital of India is going to witness a turf war among new and old players of Hindi media. On 22nd May Metro Daily News India Private Limited will launch its 24 page tabloid Metro7Days. The new player has plans to launch 14 editions from different cities. The daily will be priced at 2/-. Another player waiting in the wings is Lokmat Samachar. After launching its Jalgaon edition on May 15 it plans to enter Pune and subsequently Mumbai. Lokmat group which publishes leading Marathi daily Lokmat and Lokmat Times in English seems to have grandiose plans for its Hindi newspaper. Group editor of the Lokmat Samachar Girish Mishra has already been transferred to Pune from where he is supposed to give final shapes to his strategy of taking the newspaper to Mumbai. At present there are four editions of Lokmat Samachar which will go up to seven after the launch of three more ediions. It is interesting to note that the leader