Mid-Day

For other uses, see Midday (disambiguation).

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TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Mid Day Infomedia Limited
Founder(s)Abdul Hamid Ansari (Inquilab, 1937) Khalid A. H. Ansari (mid-day, 1979)
PublisherMid-Day Infomedia,
EditorSachin Kalbag
Photo editorAshish Rane
Founded1979
Political alignmentLiberal
LanguageEnglish, Gujarati (as Gujaratimidday.com[1] and Urdu (as The Inquilab)
HeadquartersMumbai, India
Sister newspapersInquilab,[2] Gujarati Midday[1]
Websitewww.mid-day.com
Free online archivesepaper.mid-day.com

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 so far. In 2011, the Delhi and Bangalore editions were closed down. In 2014, Jagran Prakashan shut down the midday Pune edition as well.[citation needed]

Establishment

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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.[3]

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.[citation needed]

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.[4]

Relaunch of the newspaper and website in 2014

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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.[citation needed] During the overhaul and relaunch of the newspaper and the website in 2014, the paper's slogan was also changed to Made in Mumbai.[5][6] 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.[7] The new look Mid-Day has received both positive and negative reactions.[8][9][10]

In October 2019, the Sunday Mid-Day was relaunched with a new look.[11]

Journalists jailed for reports on chief justice

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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.[12]

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."[13]

The High Court, however, sentenced the journalists without considering the veracity of the reports, and this led to considerable controversy.[14] Ex-law minister Shanti Bhushan stated that the Parliament had in 2006 amended the Contempt of Courts Act to say that "if the allegations against a judge were found to be true, then they would not be considered contemptuous." In view of this, the judgment, he said, may be "only aimed at terrifying the media and an attempt to curb truthfulness."[15]

Awards and other achievements

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Senior staff

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Jyotirmoy Dey, the Special Investigations Editor of Mid-Day was shot dead on 11 June 2011 in Mumbai by unknown assailants.[20]

Midday International Icon Awards

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In 2021, Midday started the International Icon Award to felicitate various achievers in a different field.[21]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gujarati News (ગુજરાતી સમાચાર) | News in Gujarati | Gujarati Mid-day". www.gujaratimidday.com.
  2. ^ "Urdu News, Daily Urdu News, Online Urdu Local News, Local News from Mumbai – Inquilab News Channel". www.inquilab.com.
  3. ^ Jagran to Buy Mid-Day Infomedia for Rs 200 crore. Economic Times. 06 May 2010.
  4. ^ Bhula, Pooja (19 July 2022). "Who Owns Your Media: Hindustan Times's journey from broadsheet to media conglomerate". Newslaundry.
  5. ^ "Mid-day relaunches in new avatar". www.bestmediainfo.com. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  6. ^ Hasan, Abid (31 December 2012). "mid day ropes in dhiman chattopadhyay". Exchange4Media. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  7. ^ Sheth, Darshan (30 January 2014). "IRS 2013 topline findings". www.slideshare.net. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  8. ^ "New look mid-day scores high in survey". www.pressinstitute.in. Retrieved 22 May 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  9. ^ "Mayank Shekhar joins Mid-day as Entertainment Head - Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  10. ^ Patel, Bhupen (17 December 2018). The Anatomy of a Sting. ASIN 0143441760.
  11. ^ "Mid-Day's new promise: 'We have a Sunday for you'". afaqs!. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  12. ^ "4 journos get jail term for scandalising ex-CJI". IBNLive. CNN. 21 September 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  13. ^ "Shock, anger at Sabharwal's mall-aa-mall" (PDF). Mid-Day. 12 June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
  14. ^ "HC gives 4-month jail to Mid-Day journalists, grants bail". Outlook India magazine. 21 September 2007. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  15. ^ "IRS 2019 Q1: TOI, Mumbai Mirror, Mid Day and Mint record double-digit growth in AIR". BestMediaInfo. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  16. ^ "MiD DAY Infomedia". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
  17. ^ "INMA Global Media Awards". INMA.
  18. ^ "Home". WAN-IFRA.
  19. ^ Ahmed, Shoaib (11 June 2011). "Mumbai journo shot dead by 4 unidentified men – India News". IBNLive. CNN. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  20. ^ "Glitz and glam at the Mid-Day International Icon Awards in Dubai".
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