ACCESS TO ONLINE NEWSPAPERS OF INDIA: AN

OVERVIEW

Dr. O.N. CHAUBEY

Dr. R. CHANDRA

INDIAN NEWSPAPERS IN ENGLISH: GENESIS

BENGAL GAZETTE OR CALCUTTA GENERAL ADVERTISER IN 1780;

The Times of India in 1838 The Statesman from Calcutta in 1875 The Hindu from Chennai in 1878 The Bengal Journal, The Oriental Magazine, The Calcutta Chronicle,

The Madras Courier, The Indian Herald, The Bombay Herald and The Bombay Courier.

The period between 1857 - 1947 Birth and closure of a multitude of newspapers. The famous freedom fighters as Editors like: Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Kesari) Mahatma Gandhi (Young India, Harijan and Navajeevan

Post-Independence scene India had about 4,000 newspapers and magazines in 17 languages. 51,960 that included dailies and publications of all the periodicities, in 2001. 60,413 at the end of March 2005 62,483 on 31st March 2006,

The Samachar Darpan in Bengali. The first issue of this daily was published from the Serampore Mission Press on May 23, 1818.

In the same year, Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya started publishing another newspaper in Bengali, the Bengal Gazetti In 1818.

SAMBAD KAUMUDI , in Bengali in 1820.

Miratul-ul-Akhbar in Persian language;

On July 1, 1822 the first Gujarati newspaper the Bombay Samachar was published from Bombay, which is still extant.

The first Hindi newspaper, the Samachar Sudha Varshan began in 1854.

Malayala Manorama in Malayalam language from Kerala state in 1888.

THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS IN INDIAN LANGUAGES

REGISTRAR OF NEWSPAPERS FOR INDIA:PRESS IN INDIA HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE YEAR2007-2008

*The total number of registered newspapers, as on 31st March, 2008: 69,323

*The number of new newspapers registered during 2007-08: 4,332

*The total circulation of newspapers : 20,71,08,115

*The largest circulated Daily: The Hindu,English,Chennai : 12,75,553

*The second largest circulated Daily: Ananda Bazar Patrika,Bengali,Kolkata : 12,55,850

*The third largest circulated Daily: Eenadu,Telugu,Hyderabad : 11,81,844

*The second largest circulated multi-edition Daily: Eenadu,Telugu,(23 editions):22,27,025

*The state with the largest number of registered newspapers (Uttar Pradesh):10,779

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The film is the first of its

kind reports on the

newspaper in India and

examines its role in

India’s democratic and

multicultural,

multilingual society.

MetricsNewspapers in India are measured on two parameters, circulation and readership.CirculationCirculation is certified by the Audit bureau of Circulation which is an industry body. It audits the paid-for circulation of the member newspaper companies.ReadershipReadership is estimated by two different surveys, The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) and the National Readership Survey (NRS).

The National Readership Study 2005 (NRS 2005) in India

The National Readership Study 2005 (NRS 2005) in India is the largest survey of its kind in the world, with a sample size of over 2,61,212 house-to-house interviews to track the media exposure and changing consumer trends in both urban and rural India - and of course the estimated readership of publications.

The study covers 522 publications (221 dailies and 301 magazines)

FINDINGS

Rising of Dailies from 23% to

24%

In 2005, the average urban

adult spent 42 minutes a day

reading dailies; Three years

earlier, the average reading

time was 32 minutes.

In rural India, it reading time

was 35 minutes in 2005 but in

2002, the average reading time

was 32 minutes.

An addition of 21 million readers to

the print media between 2002 and

2005.

Of the 200 million readers, as many

as 98 million are from rural India

and 101 million from urban India.

314 million people who could read

and understand one or another

language but who did not read any

publication.

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SITES ON ONLINE NEWSPAPERS OF INDIA

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS : LANGUAGEWISE

LANGUAGES NO. OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERESArabic 1

Assamese 8Bengali 15English 114

Gujarati 13Hindi 45

Kannada 11Malayalam 10

Marathi 12Nepali 2Oriya 8

Sanskrit 1Punjabi 6Tamil 25

Telugu 10Tibetan 1

Urdu 11

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS: STATEWISE

States No. Online Newspapers

States No. Online Newspapers

Andhra Pradesh 18 Maharashtra 34

Assam 11 Manipur 5

Bihar 4 Meghalaya 1

Chandigarh 1 Mizo 1

Delhi 44 Orissa 9

Goa 5 Punjab 7

Gujarat 12 Rajasthan 11

Haryana 3 Sikkim 2

Himachal Pradesh 1 Tamil Nadu 40

Jammu & Kashmir 9 Tripura 3

Karnataka 22 Uttar Pradesh 10

Kerala 14 West Bengal 21

Madhya Pradesh 6

Online News Category Sees Record Number of Visitors in October 2009

15.8 million visitors nearly

16 million people visited an

online news site in India

age 15 and older

representing 44 percent of

the online population in

India.

A gain of 37 percent from the

previous year.

An average visitor to the

news/information category

spent 22 minutes on news sites

Consumed 38 pages of content

Mumbai, India, December 14, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR

Source: comScore World Metrix   Average

Minutes per Visitor

Average Pages per Visitor

Total Internet : Total Audience 700.6 1,155 News/Information 22 38 Yahoo! News 3.6 9 New York Times Digital 3.7 5 The Times of India 14.3 27 Oneindia.in 5.8 13 The Hindu Group 3.6 4 The Indian Express Group 5.3 7 HT Media Ltd 11.5 24 NDTV.com 11.3 15 BBC 7.6 9 The Economic Times 10 20

Top 10 News/Information Sites in India : Visitors inOctober 2009

TOP 10 NEWS/INFORMATION SITES IN INDIA BASED ON VISITORS. (BETWEEN OCTOBER 2009 Vs OCTOBER 2008

Total India Internet Audience, Age 15+ - Home & Work LocationsSource: comScore World Metrix   Total Unique Visitors (000)

Oct-2008 Oct-2009 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 31,179 36,170 16

News/Information 11,529 15,838 37 Yahoo! News 3,312 4,169 26 New York Times Digital 2,306 3,854 67 The Times of India 1,476 2,626 78 Oneindia.in 949 2,359 148 The Hindu Group 1,299 1,551 19 The Indian Express Group 925 1,244 35 HT Media Ltd 1,088 1,155 6 NDTV.com 848 1,104 30 BBC 777 992 28 The Economic Times 769 820 7

SURVEY ON READERSHIP : FUNDED BY UGC

HIGHLIGHTS:

The female English Internet newspaper readers: 13%

(This has doubled from the previous study);

The majority of readership is in the age group of 21-40 years,

and it is more in states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi,

Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh;

Majority of the readers are highly educated i.e. 60%

Browsing online newspapers mainly for news – 95%

Browsing for Book/film/theatre reviews - 24.3%

Advertisements - 9.10%.

Reading more about business & economy – 69%,

politics – 60%,

science & technology -60%.

Sports news is favoured only by 37% of the users.

Matrimonial advertisements by about 2.5%

readers

Readers of Cartoons - only 0.44%

CONTINUED:

MAJOR PLAYERAccording to the Indian Readership Survey

(IRS) 2008, the Times of India is the most

widely read English newspaper in India

with a readership of 13.3 million. This

ranks the Times of India as the top English

newspaper in India by readership.

According to Comscore. TOI Online is the

world's most-visited newspaper website

with 159 million page views in May 2009,

ahead of the New York Times, The Sun,

Washington Post, Daily Mail, and USA

Today Websites.

Dainik Jagran, is a world's Largest Hindi Portal and it is the 17th most widely read newspaper in the world. It was the brainchild of the freedom fighter Mr. Puranchandra Gupta. The first edition was launched in Jhansi in 1942 and in 1947 Dainik Jagran shifted its headquarters to Kanpur where it launched its second edition on 21 September, 1947.Dainik Jagran is India's largest circulated Hindi daily, with 21.24 Million Readers according to National Readership Survey. It is the first Indian publication to cross the 20 million mark.  

DAINIK JAGRAN

Sudharma, the only Sanskrit daily newspaper in India, began its online version in June 2008. By going online Sudharma is planning to attract advertisers, which is essential for the survival of the only Sanskrit daily

ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARCHIVESTHE TIMES OF INDIA (1996 - )

THE HINDU (2000 - )

HINDUSTAN TIMES (1996 - )

THE INDIAN EXPRESS (1997 - )

THE TELEGRAPH (1999 - )

THE STATESMAN (1999 - )

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (2000 - )

DNA (2005 - )

ECONOMIC TIMES (1996 - )

PUNJABNEWSLINE (2001 - )