Hindi Media

Dhaleta Surender Kumar dhaleta.surender@thebrandreporter.com © The Brand Reporter If Ajay Chacko, director, TV18 Business Media, is to be believed, the circulation of English business dailies in India is a mere 12 lakh. He discounts some regional-language business dailies, saying that the numbers are minuscule, so they hardly make a dent in the total circulation. Take for instance, the print run of Nafa Nuksan, the Hindi business daily in Rajasthan. It’s a mere 20,000. Ask Financial Express (FE), which has a Gujarati version; the print run may be far less as it is not ready to reveal the figures, but claims that it has a readership of about 25,000. Economic Times (ET) too has a Gujarati version. However, there is a need in the regional space for business dailies and media houses have woken up to it. ET and Business Standard (BS), both are believed to be coming up with a Hindi version of their respective papers in the near future. Jagran Prakashan and Network18 have announced a 50:50 jo...

Manoj Binwal has made a comeback to Dainik Bhaskar, Jaipur. He switched over to Rajasthan Patrika and was heading the team entrusted with the task of launching Daily News. He switched sides once again a day prior to the D day ie launch of Daily News. Now Deputy Editor of Rajasthan Patrika Govind Chaturvedi has been made editor Daily News. On the other hand after losing N.K.Singh to Indian Express, Daink Bhaskar has lost yet another veteran of print media. Girish Mishra to Navbharat. Girish Mishra was looking after editorial responsibilites at Bhopal edition of Dainik Bhaskar.