HT Media - History

History

In 1924, This date marked the august beginnings of Hindustan Times with Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation inaugurating the newspaper. In 1927, Hindustan Times, was reborn as Hindustan Times Ltd., a limited liability company. In 1936, The Hindi daily Hindustan was launched, which remains the dominant newspaper in the core Hindi belt of northern India. In 1937, Devdas Gandhi was appointed the Managing Editor of the newspaper and remained the managing editor till his death in 1957. In 1942, The Hindustan Times was one of the few newspapers that stopped publishing the newspaper for four and a half months as it refused to accept the British imposition of censorship on all newspapers. In 1947, The year India gained its freedom, was also the year Hindustan Times attained the status of being the dominant newspaper in Delhi. In 1957, The newspaper circulation grew from 58,693 copies to 144,287 in 1970 after KK Birla took over the mantle from GD Birla. In 1960, The Hindi literary magazine Kadambini was launched. In 1964, The group started actively targeting the youth of India and launched the Nandan magazine.

In 1991, At the start of liberalization of India, Hindustan Times moved to becoming an autonomous power center in a mature democracy. In 1999, The Hindustan Times celebrated its platinum anniversary. In 2000, With a focus on localization, five new editions for Calcutta, Bhopal, Ranchi, Chandigarh and Jaipur were launched. In 2003, The media business of was de-merged and incorporated under HT Media Ltd. In 2004, HT Media Ltd was listed as a public company and attracted external funding. In 2005, Hindustan Times successfully entered the Mumbai market with a refreshingly new product and content mix. In 2006, Fever 104 FM is 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, Mint, the business paper in partnership with the Wall Street Journal was launched in Delhi and Mumbai. In the internet space, Hindustantimes.com was relaunched and Livemint.com was introduced. In 2008, Firefly e-Ventures, an HT Media Company launched its first portal for job seekers, Shine.com.