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Mid-Day
Morning daily Indian compact newspaper
Morning daily Indian compact newspaper
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | mid-day |
| logo | Mdlogo.gif |
| logo_size | 200px |
| image | MidDayCover.jpg |
| image_size | 240px |
| type | Daily newspaper |
| format | Compact |
| owners | Mid Day Infomedia Limited |
| founder | Abdul Hamid Ansari (Inquilab, 1937) Khalid A. H. Ansari (mid-day, 1979) |
| publisher | Mid-Day Infomedia, |
| editor | Sachin Kalbag |
| photo_editor | Ashish Rane |
| founded | 1979 |
| political_position | Liberal |
| language | English, Gujarati (as Gujaratimidday.com and Urdu (as The Inquilab) |
| headquarters | Mumbai, India |
| sister_newspapers | Inquilab, Gujarati Midday |
| website | |
| free |
Mid-Day (stylised as mid-day) is a morning daily Indian compact newspaper. Editions in various languages including Gujarati and English have been published out of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune. In 2011, the Delhi and Bangalore editions were closed down. In 2014, Jagran Prakashan shut down the midday Pune edition as well.
Establishment
The paper was established in Mumbai by journalist Khalid Ansari in 1979 as a family-owned newspaper. The Sunday edition of the paper began in 1981. Later, his son, Tariq Ansari led the paper, who sold its ownership to Jagran Prakashan in 2010.
The newspaper underwent an overhaul, both, of its print editions and its website in early 2014, creating several new sections in the daily newspaper, in its Sunday edition and on its website.
It founded Radio One (India), a radio station initially operating as Radio Midday in Mumbai, which was eventually acquired by HT Media as 94.3 Radio One in 2019.
Relaunch of the newspaper and website in 2014
Originally, the newspaper published two editions in Mumbai: an early-morning and a noon edition. Since April 2009, only the morning editions have been published and the company has dropped printing a noon newspaper, citing positioning issues. During the overhaul and relaunch of the newspaper and the website in 2014, the paper's slogan was also changed to Made in Mumbai. As of 2014, the paper had an estimated readership base of 5,00,000 for MiD Day (English) in Mumbai and was featured in the list of top 10 Indian newspapers by readership in the 2013 Indian Readership Survey list. The new look Mid-Day has received both positive and negative reactions.
In October 2019, the Sunday Mid-Day was relaunched with a new look.
Journalists jailed for reports on chief justice
On 20 September 2007, four journalists of Mid Day, including Resident Editor Vitusha Oberoi and City Editor MK Tayal, were sentenced to four months jail on contempt of court charges, because of a report they had filed on the ex-Chief Justice of India, Y. K. Sabharwal.
Many in the legal community feel that in the 2006 Delhi sealing drive, Justice Sabharwal may have had a conflict of interest since his sons own a firm with relations to the Delhi real estate. Former Solicitor General KK Sud had called this behaviour "the height of indiscretion." |access-date=22 September 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228160258/http://www.judicialreforms.org/files/Shock%20anger%20midday.pdf |archive-date=28 February 2008
The High Court, however, sentenced the journalists without considering the veracity of the reports, and this led to considerable controversy.
Awards and other achievements
- Mid-day made it to the top 10 English dailies at the IRS 2019 Q1
- Asia Multimedia Publishing Media Awards 2009
- INMA AWARDS 2008 at California – USA INMA AWARDS
- Amsterdam IFRA AWARDS 2008
Senior staff
Jyotirmoy Dey, the Special Investigations Editor of Mid-Day was shot dead on 11 June 2011 in Mumbai by unknown assailants.
Midday International Icon Awards
In 2021, Midday started the International Icon Award to felicitate various achievers in a different field.
References
References
- "Gujarati News (ગુજરાતી સમાચાર) | News in Gujarati | Gujarati Mid-day".
- "Urdu News, Daily Urdu News, Online Urdu Local News, Local News from Mumbai – Inquilab News Channel".
- [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/jagran-to-buy-mid-day-info-for-rs-200-cr/articleshow/5895781.cms Jagran to Buy Mid-Day Infomedia for Rs 200 crore]. ''Economic Times''. 06 May 2010.
- (19 July 2022). "Who Owns Your Media: Hindustan Times's journey from broadsheet to media conglomerate".
- "Mid-day relaunches in new avatar".
- (31 December 2012). "mid day ropes in dhiman chattopadhyay". Exchange4Media.
- (30 January 2014). "IRS 2013 topline findings".
- "New look mid-day scores high in survey".
- "Mayank Shekhar joins Mid-day as Entertainment Head - Exchange4media".
- Patel, Bhupen. (17 December 2018). "The Anatomy of a Sting".
- "Mid-Day's new promise: 'We have a Sunday for you'".
- (21 Sep 2007). "HC gives 4-month jail to Mid-Day journalists, grants bail". Outlook India magazine.
- (30 April 2019). "IRS 2019 Q1: TOI, Mumbai Mirror, Mid Day and Mint record double-digit growth in AIR".
- "MiD DAY Infomedia".
- "INMA Global Media Awards".
- "Home".
- Ahmed, Shoaib. (11 June 2011). "Mumbai journo shot dead by 4 unidentified men – India News". CNN.
- "Glitz and glam at the Mid-Day International Icon Awards in Dubai".
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