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. It is the second oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation after ''

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''. In 2010, The Pioneer launched its Hindi version in

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''The Pioneer''

History

''The Pioneer'' was founded in

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in 1865, by George Allen, an Englishman who had great success in the tea business in north-east India in the previous decade.Das Gupta, Uma. 1977. "The Indian Press 1870-1880: A Small World of Journalism", ''Modern Asian Studies'', 11(2):213-235. pp 233-234. It was brought out three times a week from 1865 to 1869 and daily thereafter. In 1866, a supplement, the ''Pioneer Mail'', consisting of "48 quarto-size pages," mostly of advertisements, was added to the publication. In 1872, Alfred Sinnett became the editor of the newspaper. Although he was later to be known for his interest in

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, he oversaw the transformation of the newspaper to one of exercising great influence in British India. In 1874, the weekly ''Pioneer Mail'' became the ''Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News'' and began to also feature short stories and travel writings.National Library of Australia. 1994
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(1865-1936), in his early 20s, worked at the newspaper office in Allahabad as an assistant editor from November 1887 to March 1889. In July 1933, ''The Pioneer'' was sold to a syndicate and moved from Allahabad to

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, at which time the ''Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News'' ceased publication. The newspaper remained a primarily Lucknow-based paper until 1990, when it was purchased by the Thapar Group, under L. M. Thapar, who made it a national newspaper, published from

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. Thapar sold the paper to its editor

Chandan Mitra Chandan Mitra ( bn, চন্দন মিত্র; 12 December 1954 – 1 September 2021) was an Indian journalist and politician who was the editor and managing director of '' The Pioneer'' newspaper in Delhi. He was also a two-term member ...

in 1998. At that time it had 484 employees. Mitra announced that he intended to seek other investors in due course rather than to remain the owner. On 17 October 2010, ''The Pioneer'' launched its Hindi version of the newspaper from Lucknow and in May 2012, the paper inaugurated its Raipur bureau, beginning operations of its Chhattisgarh edition.

was the Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer. He resigned as printer and publisher in June 2021, and died in September 2021.

Editions

* Delhi * Lucknow * Bhopal *Bhubaneshwar * Chandigarh * Raipur * Dehradun * Ranchi * Telangana Lucknow edition includes four other editions Varanasi, Kanpur, Allahabad and Lucknow itself.

Columnists

Kanchan Gupta Kanchan Gupta ( Bengali: কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত) is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist. Early life and education Born to Bangladeshi refugee parents, Kanchan Gupta was raised in Jamshedpur and Patna where he att ...

Balbir Punj Balbir Punj is an eminent journalist and columnist from India. For more than two and a half decades, Punj has been writing on current topics in important Hindi-English newspapers, magazines. He specializes in dealing with social, economic, and p ...

K G Suresh K. G. Suresh is a New Delhi based senior journalist, columnist and communication specialist. He is currently serving as Vice Chancellor of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal. He is also Emeritus Prof ...

KPS Gill Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (29 December 1934 – 26 May 2017) was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He served twice as DGP for the state of Punjab, India, where he is credited with having brought the Punjab insurgency under control. While man ...

Cartoonists

Sudhir Dar Sudhir Dar (14 May 1932 – 26 November 2019) was an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. Starting with '' The Statesman'' in 1961, he went on to work as the political cartoonist with ''Hindustan Times'' from 1967 for over two decades. Subsequentl ...

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Shekhar Gurera Lalit Kala Academy Shekhar Gurera, or Chander Shekhar Gurera, is an Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He publishes regular cartoons with comments about India's political and social trends. His daily pocket cartoons ...

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References

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