HT Media is an Indian

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company based in

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, India. It has holdings in print, electronic and digital media. HT Media's flagship newspaper is the ''

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Ly ...

'', the second most widely read English newspaper in India after ''

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''. It also publishes ''

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'', an Indian financial daily newspaper. Other publications include the Hindi-language daily ''

Hindustan ''Hindūstān'' ( , from '' Hindū'' and ''-stān''), also sometimes spelt as Hindōstān ( ''Indo-land''), along with its shortened form ''Hind'' (), is the Persian-language name for the Indian subcontinent that later became commonly used b ...

'', the Hindi-language literary magazine ''

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'', and Hindi-language children's magazine ''Nandan.'' It operates 19 printing facilities across India with an installed capacity of 1.5 million copies per hour. HT’s online business, is largely handled by Firefly e-ventures internet business, include the flagship web portal Hindustantimes.com, Livemint.com, Desimartini.com, HTCampus.com and Shine.com. Although a public company listed on both the BSE and NSE, HT Media Ltd. is majority owned and controlled by the KK Birla family, with

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, daughter of K. K. Birla, its Chairperson.

History

'' was founded in 1924, and formally established as a limited liability company in 1927. In 1936, The Hindi daily

was launched. It also publishes two magazines in Hindi, ''

'', a literary magazine established in 1960 and ''Nandan'' a children's magazine, started in 1964. In 2002, the company incorporated all of its media businesses under HT Media Ltd. In 2004, HT Media Ltd was listed as a public company and attracted external funding. In 2006,

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was launched, in technical collaboration with the Virgin Group. ''Hindustan'' was relaunched re-establishing the company's prominent presence in the regional news space. In 2007,

, the business paper in partnership with the

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was launched in

and

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. In the internet space, Hindustantimes.com was relaunched and Livemint.com was introduced. To further expand its digital presence, HTCampus.com was launched in June 2010 to provide information on colleges, courses, exams and careers for higher education in India. HT Media acquired Radio One (India) in 2019, and VCCircle from

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in 2020.

Digital businesses

* HT Mobile - which in turn acquired

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agency Webitude.Sonam Gulati (22 July 2013
"HT Media’s digital business revenues up 41% in Q1 at Rs 17.5Cr, segment loss at Rs 17.04Cr"
Techcircle.in. Retrieved 28 October 2013. * Firefly e-Ventures - which moved to the parent company and launched its job portal, Shine.com. * OTT Play - Content discovery platform offering curated shows and movies on streaming platforms
Shine.com
- This is an online job portal of HT Media which is operational in India. And, it is also the second largest job portal website in India. * Shine Learning - It is an online learning portal of HT Media which provides online courses, certification exams, and practice test related to various fields like

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, banking, finance, and web development.

References

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