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154-year-old newspaper shuts shop in US
At a time when print media is facing the heat across the world, far away in the US, a small community newspaper in business...
Uttar Pradesh makes daily newspaper reading mandatory in schools
To promote literacy and reduce screen dependency among students, the Uttar Pradesh government has made daily newspaper reading mandatory across all state-run basic and...
Print ad rates hiked by 26%, relief for small newspapers
Much to the relief of newspapers and magazines, the government of India has announced a 26% increase in advertisement rates for print media, raising...
Three newspaper plants get Wan-Ifra carbon footprint certificate
The print production units of Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) Kolkata and The Times of India (TOI) units in Ahmedabad and Sahibabad (Delhi) received the Wan-Ifra...
The common man and the English newspaper – a mythical combination
The publisher of Tamil daily Dinamalar, L. Adimoolam, speaks out on India’s media data currency, the IRS pilot study, and the prevalent bias of...
Vivek Gupta elected Indian Newspaper Society president for 2025-26
Vivek Gupta, CMD & chief group editor of Sanmarg, a Hindi daily headquartered in Kolkata, has been elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society...
Newspapers and their act of staying relevant
Print resilience and resurgence, the future of newspapers and print media, new technologies, printing innovation, distribution challenges, cost optimization, newsprint issues, sustainability, world press...
Newspaper circulation rose 3% in Jan-June – ABC
The certified circulation figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for January-June 2025 show a healthy growth of daily newspapers during this...
The Indian newspaper industry – strong recovery in FY 23-24
Over the decade we have studied, the Indian newspaper industry has undergone a period of pronounced change — navigating shifts in advertising markets, evolving...
The newspaper industry’s roller-coaster ride
The past five or six years have been a roller coaster ride for the print media industry in general and the newspaper segment in...
The financial journey of India’s five listed newspaper groups
India’s newspaper industry has undergone significant financial shifts over the last 12 years, shaped by rising costs, advertising market fluctuations, and digital disruption. While...
The Indian newspaper industry crisis – Part 4 of a 6-part series
In the 1970s, when one visited a large metropolitan newspaper’s printing plant in India, it typically ran a Goss or Wifag double-width or a...
Indian newspaper circulations recover post-pandemic, but challenges persist – Part 3 of a 6...
THE INDIAN NEWSPAPER industry is steadily regaining ground after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, though circulation and readership remain below pre-pandemic levels, according...
The Indian newspaper crisis – print takes advantage of a digital backbone but fails...
It is no secret that the Indian news media in print has been challenged by lower circulation and advertising revenues since 2017. Moreover, it...
The larger Indian newspaper groups face a crisis – Part 1 of a 6...
Unlike the Western or developed countries where the newspaper business is in the doldrums, the Indian newspapers although wounded by the pandemic, continue to...
IppStar relooks at 35 major newspaper groups in India
In August 2023, Indian Printer and Publisher published IppStar’s (www.ippstar.org) quick analysis of nine years of financial data reported by most, if not all,...
Technova CEO Amit Khurana advocates newspaper industry diversification
At the Indian Printers Summit hosted by Wan-Ifra in Hyderabad last month, Amit Khurana, CEO of Technova Imaging Systems, stressed that diversification is vital...
How automation transformed newspaper production at India’s ABP
“Adapting to changing consumer preferences and leveraging new technologies is crucial for survival and growth of the newspaper printing industry,” Pradyumna Mitra, general manager...
The resilience of the Indian newspaper and print industries
Three topics dominate the current discussion in the Indian print and newspaper industries: AI, diversification, and resilience. I have received the two AI books...
Newspaper houses must diversify to stay alive
As print volumes and newspaper circulations decline, newspaper houses are exploring ways to find alternative revenue streams. While quite a few have diversified from...
Newspapers still most credible news source – study by AI app
Newspapers were rated as the most credible news source, not only for older but younger readers too, according to a study. Older aged respondents...
Regional newspapers may grow 8-9% this fiscal, says report
A new report says buoyant growth in advertising revenue, driven by strong localized demand from key advertising sectors such as automobiles, retail, education, eCommerce,...
INS seeks concessions for newspapers in July budget
Ahead of the Union Budget in July, Indian Newspaper Society president Rakesh Sharma met finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to raise issues related to the...
Innovative design can help newspapers get young readers on board
In a previous article, Indian Printer and Publisher had interacted with the lead designers of Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Hindu, which won...
Fujifilm’s offset plate deal with newspaper giant DPG Media
Underlining its offset print heritage, Fujifilm announced a commercial deal with newspaper company DPG Media, during drupa. The Netherlands-based newspaper firm confirmed its investment...
ABC versus RNI – the newspaper story
The latest ABC for the year 2023 is out. After this audit, which was taken as a whole year, it will be again a...
India excels at International Newspaper Design Competition Awards
The 6th International Newspaper Design Competition awards were recently announced by Asia's newspaper design website newspaperdesign.in. From India, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, The Hindu,...
The Indian newspaper industry’s gradual recovery
In February and March 2024, there have been several reports by global organizations on the Indian media and entertainment industry. While these try and...
Newspapers & periodicals registrations goes online through Press Sewa Portal
Registration of newspapers and periodicals has now gone online, The government has notified the Press & Registration of Periodicals Act (PRP Act), 2023 and...
PCI – Verify firms placing job ads in newspapers
The Press Council of India (PCI) has advised newspapers to cross-check the credentials of companies placing advertisements for jobs. In a statement, the PCI...
Raddi economics and Indian newspapers
A recent full-page advertisement in the well-known Mumbai newspaper, Free Press Journal, has led to a row of sorts and a debate in the...
The newspaper industry recovers in bits and pieces
We have heard from industry sources that the just past Diwali was a success in terms of advertising revenues for the leading Indian multilocational...
Family-owned newspaper newspapers are restructuring
Some of the leading newspaper publishing groups are also under stress from ownership re-alignments, which is a natural outcome of an industry that is...
How newspapers can lead the sustainability fight
As the world battles climate change, sustainability has become the focus of every industry. The newspapers industry is not to be left behind in...
4CPlus – newspaper editorial systems to mobile apps
For more than 22 years, 4Cplus, a home-grown IT company, has been providing end-to-end software solutions to news publishers in print, digital media companies,...
PPI Media demonstrates newspaper layout automation at Kochi
PPI Media, a Hamburg, Germany-based software developer for content and publishing production solutions, demonstrated its next-level automation solution for newspaper layout at the Wan-Ifra...
Optimizing offset plate technologies in the newspaper industry
An important point of discussion at the Wan-Ifra Kochi printers’ meet in September was a strategic shift toward better plate technology in order to...
Kodak and Insight promote sustainable newspaper printing
Kodak and Insight showcased their sustainable prepress and process-free thermal offset plate solutions at the recent Wan-Ifra India Summit in Kochi. Kodak and Insight...
The Kerala newspaper story
The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, which brought India and the world to a grinding halt, had almost sounded the death knell for the print industry....
Nine-year financial results of 35 Indian newspaper groups
Earlier this year, Ipp Services, Training and Research (www.ippstar.org) took a look at the reported standalone financial results of a dozen newspaper publishers over...
The five Indian newspaper groups listed on the stock market
For the five news media groups listed in the Indian stock market, we are able to look at results including the financial year 2022-23...
PPI Media introduces next-level automation for newspaper layout
PPI Media, the Hamburg-based software developer for content and publishing production solutions, has over the past two years come up with another module that...
Technova’s Amit Khurana decodes newspaper dynamics
Amit Khurana, the deputy CEO of Technova Imaging Systems, speaks with Indian Printer and Publisher’s senior correspondent Shardul Sharma about the cost dynamics of...
The evolving newsroom operation in Indian newspapers
Needless to say, newsroom workflow in newspapers has dramatically evolved over the years. And I have been through some of it. Back in the...
Technova’s offset plates help in greening Indian newspapers
While the Indian print media industry is still trying to recover its earlier levels of prosperity, it has overcome the supply chain challenges of...
Newspapers navigating leaner operations amid challenging landscape: Rajiv Gandotra
The Indian newspaper industry, once marked by robust expansion, is grappling with the challenges of changing consumer behavior and a subdued growth trajectory, says...
WPS 2023: Financial sustainability of newspapers
Christian Siebert, publisher of Hamburger Abendblatt, will present the opening keynote on 'Financial Sustainability of the Printed Newspaper' at the in-person Wan-Ifra World Printers...
Sun sets for world’s oldest newspaper
'320 years, 12 presidents, 10 emperors, 2 republics, 1 newspaper', reads the final front page of Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest newspaper.
After 320 years...
HT Media – Newspaper publisher diversifies into commercial printing
As newspaper circulation and profits begin to decline, especially after the Covid pandemic, big media houses have started diversifying into different and related segments...
Newspapers need to engage with readers: Dainik Jagran Inext’s Alok Sanwal
At a time when newspapers face uncertain times, and many publications across India and the world shut down print editions, especially after the Covid-19...
