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Who Owns Your Media: Prabhat Khabar’s rise from the ashes to becoming a regional powerhouse

Post independence, even after the reorganisation of India’s internal boundaries with the implementation of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, new states continued to be carved out. Not on linguistic lines as the Act had done, but reportedly to meet regional demands and address inequalities in regional development. 

Newslaundry · Jul 3, 2024

Who Owns Your Media: Once dethroned, how Rajasthan Patrika bounced back to pole position

While several legacy publications in India were inspired by the freedom struggle and often conceived to give voice to it, Rajasthan Patrika was started to achieve a different freedom – a desire for independent media. 

Newslaundry · Dec 26, 2023

Who Owns Your Media: On a high after the pandemic, the ups and downs of Amar Ujala

India had just been freed of British rule. Yet British-established English dailies were the dominant media. At such a time, Murari Lal Maheshwari and Dori Lal Agarwal decided to start a news and current affairs newspaper. The objective, states their publication’s website, was “promoting social awakening and introducing a feeling…

Newslaundry · Jan 16, 2023