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''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language
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daily newspaper published by the
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-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''
The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...
'', under the ownership of Chennai-based
P. Varadarajulu Naidu Perumal Varadarajulu Naidu (4 June 1887 – 23 July 1957) was an Indian physician, politician, journalist and Indian independence activist. He was also the founder of The Indian Express, a major English-language daily, in 1932 in Madras. He was ...
. In 1991, following the death of owner
Ramnath Goenka Ramnath Goenka (22 April 1904 – 5 October 1991) was an Indian newspaper publisher. He launched ''The Indian Express'' in 1932 and created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications.''A doyen of Indian Jou ...
, his family split the group into two companies. Initially, the two groups shared the ''Indian Express'' title, as well as editorial and other resources. But on 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in
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, retained the ''Indian Express'' moniker, while the southern editions became ''The New Indian Express''. Santwana Bhattacharya was appointed Editor-in-Chief on July 1st, 2022, replacing G.S. Vasu.


History

''Indian Express'' was first published on September 5, 1932, in
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(now
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) by an Ayurvedic doctor and
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member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the same
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where he ran the ''Tamil Nadu'' Tamil weekly. But soon, on account of financial difficulties, he sold it to S. Sadanand, founder of ''
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'', another English newspaper. In 1933, ''The Indian Express'' opened its second office in
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and launched the
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daily '' Dinamani'' on September 11, 1934. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price, but later sold part of his stake in the form of convertible debentures to Ramnath Goenka due to financial difficulties. When ''The Free Press Journal'' further went into financial decline in 1935, Sadanand lost ownership of ''Indian Express'' after a long controversial court battle with Goenka, where blows were exchanged. Finally, a year later, Goenka bought the rest of the 26 per cent stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under his control, who took the already anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights. At that time it had to face stiff competition from the well-established ''
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'' and the ''Mail'', besides other prominent newspapers. In the late 1930s, the circulation was no more than 2,000. In 1939 Goenka bought out ''
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'', a prominent
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daily. It gained the name
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for the three dailies. In 1940 the whole premises were gutted by fire. ''The Hindu'', its rival, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offering its recently vacated premises in Madras at 2, Mount Road later to become the landmark Express Estates. This relocation helped the ''Express'' obtain better high-speed printing machines. In later years, Goenka started the
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edition with the landmark Express Towers as his office when the ''Morning Standard'' was bought by him in 1944. Two years later it became the Mumbai edition of ''The Indian Express''. Later on, editions were started in cities like
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(1957),
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(1965) and
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(1968). The '' Financial Express'' was launched in 1961 from Mumbai, a Bangalore edition of ''Andhra Prabha'' was launched in 1965, and
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dailies ''Lok Satta'' and ''Jansatta'' in 1952, from Ahmedabad and Baroda. The
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edition started was when the Tej group's ''Indian News Chronicle'' was acquired in 1951, which from 1953 became the Delhi edition of ''Indian Express''. In 1990 it bought the Sterling group of magazines and, along with it, the ''Gentleman'' magazine. After Goenka's demise in 1991, two of the family members split the group into ''Indian Express'' Mumbai with all the north Indian editions, while the southern editions were grouped as Express Publications (Madurai) Limited with
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as headquarters.


Editions

''The New Indian Express'' is now published from all 22 major cities in
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.


Circulation

''The New Indian Express'' has a net paid circulation of 595,618 copies. ''NIE'' achieves its biggest penetration (paid sales per head of population) in the state of Kerala. It claims to be the first Indian newspaper to give insurance benefits to its subscribers. It is published in a geographical area that covers approximately 24 per cent of the national population. ''The New Sunday Express'' (the Sunday edition of the NIE) is arguably the flagship publication, with magazine supplements incorporating national and international themes and sections on developmental issues, society, politics, literature, arts, cinema, travel, lifestyle, sports, new-age living, self-development and entertainment.


Recent changes

During late 2007/early 2008, there was a big shakeout of editorial staff, with many old hands leaving to make way for new. In April 2008, the newspaper underwent a major, drastic and exceptionally modern layout and design makeover and launched a huge advertising campaign. In October 2007, ''The New Indian Express'' launched a 40-page Friday magazine supplement (now, total colour) called Indulge exclusively for the Chennai edition. In September 2010, the lifestyle pullout began a Bangalore edition.


Websites

The New Indian Express Group of Companies also publishes '' Dinamani'' in Tamil and the following magazines: '' Cinema Express'' (Tamil), ''
Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika ''Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika'' is a newsweekly and website published by The Express Publications Madurai (P) Ltd, publisher of The New Indian Express ''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper publi ...
'' (Malayalam), in addition to the website ''Edex Live''.


See also

*
Indian Express Group Indian Express Limited is an Indian news media publishing company. It publishes several widely circulated dailies, including ''The Indian Express'' and '' The Financial Express'' in English, the ''Loksatta'' in Marathi and the '' Jansatta'' in ...
* ''
The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...
'' * List of newspapers in India by circulation * List of newspapers in the world by circulation


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