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The following newspapers are published in the Malayalam language in India
Mathrubhumi
Mathrubhumi
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner The Mathrubhumi Printing and
Publishing Company Ltd.
Publisher P.V.Chandran
Editor M.Kesava Menon
Founded 1923
Political
alignment
Independent[1]
Headquarters Kozhikode
Circulation above 12 lakhs daily
Official website mathrubhumi.com
Mathrubhumi (Malayalam: മാ�തൃ�ഭൂ�മാ�) is a Malayalam language newspaper that is
published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an
active volunteer in theIndian freedom struggle against the British.
History
Based in the northern Kerala town of Kozhikode (Calicut), Mathrubhumi was founded in
1923 in the aftermath of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement as a public limited
company. This status makes it rare among newspapers, which tend to be closely held
private companies owned by a single family.
The newspaper's founders were members of the Indian National Congress led by K.P.
Kesava Menon (1886- 1978); its shareholders included about 350 men and women of
Kerala. Though Mathrubhumi lost money regularly in its early years, that did not matter,
its historian noted in 1973, because its goals were not those of business but of social
oppression and unrest. It battled gallantly with British authorities before independence
and bitterly with Kerala's Communists from the late 1930s.
By the 1940s, as Kerala's literate and politicised character forced itself to the attention
of officials, the British acknowledged that Mathrubhumi, reaches every village in the
district [of Malabar] and... [a] mischievous attack of the Police [in Mathrubhumi] is likely
to do, a great deal of harm among the mass of the people who are able to read but not
able to think for themselves. Mathrubhumi played important roles in many social
reformation movements such as Vaikom Satyagraha and Guruvayur
Satyagraha against untouchability. Participating in the Satyagraha, K.P. Keasava
Menon was arrested and was sent to Jail. Independence activists such as P.
Ramanunni Nair, K. Kelappan, P. Narayanan Nair, C. H. Kunjappa, K. A. Damodara
Menon, and A. P. Udhayabhanu have served as Chief Editors of the newspaper, and
also mathrubhumi has also witnessed some of the very splendid IAS / Civil Service
officers as editors.
Mathrubhumi was Kerala's leading daily with an estimated circulation of 19,000 at
independence in 1947, which rose quickly to 26,000 by 1952.
The bitter struggle between the Congress and the Communists in Kerala gave a
Congress newspaper not only a reason for existence but a steady supply of electrifying
stories for eager readers. The conduct of the newspaper remained with the old
nationalists who had founded it and who comprised most of the shareholders, most of
whom, it was said, had little idea where they had put their ancient share certificates.
Commercial competition became noticeable after the formation of Kerala state in 1957.
Mathrubhumi had been slow to join the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as its certificate
No. 143 suggests.
A struggle began among the shareholders for control of the company. The 5,000 shares
at Rs 5 each, which had floated the newspaper in 1923, acquired undreamt- of value.
By the 1990s, with control of the newspaper contested, they traded at thousands of
rupees each. The struggle to control Mathrubhumi eventually reached the Supreme
Court of India and illustrated the value of a newspaper and the way in which languages
and local honour provide at least a hindrance to the acquisition of newspapers by
'outside' capitalists.
In 1993, Mathrubhumi's general manager - finance described the financial structure and
compulsions of the company. When the newspaper was floated in the 1920s, 3,479 of
the 5,000 shares were purchased at a nominal fee of Rs 5 each by 352 different
shareholders, 203 of whom bought only one share each. Even in the 1990s, no single
person owned more than 225 shares. Mathrubhumi was a "public limited company in
the true sense". Shareholders elect nine directors for two-year terms, one-third being
elected each year.
The late 1970s brought two important changes. First, the old nationalists, who had run
the newspaper as a kind of public trust, began to disappear. Second, the economic
climate in India and in Kerala began to become more unapologetically capitalist.
Mathrubhumi, which under its old regime was a Kerala institution and also an effectively
run business, came to be seen as a valuable asset. Its control could provide wealth -
and certainly provided influence and prestige. Shares in Mathrubhumi began to be
traded in a way that was inconceivable 10 years earlier. Indeed, when the share book
was tidied up in the mid-1980s, it was found that there were dozens of partly paid-up
shares whose owners were long dead or unknown. Such shares were forfeited, making
the remaining valid shares even more valuable.
A keen contest to control the company began, in which M.P. Veerendra Kumar, a
wealthy planter and political aspirant, who held about 3% of the shares, emerged as the
dominant shareholder and became managing director. In the course of this struggle,
M.D. Nalapat, another shareholder and editor from 1984-87, whose mother, the writer
Kamala Das, also held shares, was forced off the board of directors. Nalapat then broke
the rules as they had existed uptill that time: he sold his shares (at Rs l2,500 each) not
merely outside of Kerala but to India's wealthiest newspaper chain, Bennett, Coleman &
Co., owners of The Times of India in Bombay. Nalapat and his supporters sold close to
20% of the shares in Mathrubhumi. Though this was scarcely a controlling interest,
others saw the sale as the beginning of a Times of India takeover of a Kerala institution,
and, according to Nalapat, an "innate sense of paranoia surfaced". The dominant
shareholders appealed against the sale to the Kerala High Court which ruled that
because The Times of India was a competitor of Mathrubhumi, the sale was invalid.
Some saw the court's decision more as a response to Kerala sentiment than to the
requirements of the law. The Times of India appealed to the Supreme Court of India
where the case was still pending in the mid-1990s.
In 1932 the company entered Magazine Journalism with the launch of Mathrubhumi
Illustrated Weekly. In 1940, Viswaroopam, a comic magazine was launched
with Sanjayan as the Chief Editor. Yugaprabhat, a bi-monthly in Hindi was also
published whose editor was N. V. Krishna Warrier. But now, these two publications are
not in print.
Mathrubhumi is topmost circulated newspaper in Kerala and is headquartered
in Calicut. Inside Kerala, it is published
from Calicut,Thiruvananthapuram, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur, Palakkad, Malap
puram, Kollam and Alappuzha. Outside Kerala, it is published
fromChennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, and New Delhi. It has a current readership of
94,44,000 as per the Indian Readership Survey 2009 (Round 1)
M. P. Veerendra Kumar, former minister for state, Govt. of India [Janata Dal state
President] is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mathrubhumi. P.V. Chandran is
the Managing Editor. M. Kesava Menon is the Editor of Mathrubhumi daily. M.
V .Shreyams Kumar is the Director-Marketing and P. V. Nidhish is the Director-Editorial
Administration. P. V. Ganagadharan, Industrialist of KTC Group, Calicut is a Director in
Mathrubhumi Board.
Malayala Manorama
Malayala Manorama
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Malayala Manorama Group
Editor-in-chief Mammen Mathew
Founded 1888
Political alignment Pro-Congress
Language Malayalam
Headquarters Kottayam
Circulation 19,03,000 daily
Official website manoramaonline.com
Malayala Manorama (Malayalam: മാലയാ�ള മാനോ��രമാ) is a daily news paper,
in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as
a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million (with a
circulation base of over 1.8 million copies)[citation needed]. The Malayalam word "manorama"
roughly translates to "entertainer". The Week (India), an Indian weekly is also brought
out by the Manorama Group. Manorama Yearbook is another popular yearly publication
by the Kottayam- Kozhikode based Manorama Group. It has 32 publications all over
India in five languages (English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali)
History
A joint stock publishing company, destined to acquire the status of the first joint stock
publishing company of Republic of India, was incorporated by in 1888 by Kandathil
Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam, then a small town in the Kingdom of Travancore,
currently, a part of Kerala state, India. The first issue of Malayala Manorama was
published on March 22,1890 from the press owned by Malankara
Metropolitan Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious II of the Indian Orthodox Church. The
name Malayala Manorama was chosen by the poet, Raghavan Nambiar,
Villuvarvattathu from Tiruvalla. Kerala Varma granted the symbol which is a part of the
Travancore kingdom symbol. In a period of two years, from the date of incorporation
until the publication commenced, the company witnessed several challenges. Presently,
it also publishes several other publications, including the english news magazine The
Week (the-week.com), the women's mag Vanitha (in Malayalam and Hindi), an
information oriented monthly called 'Tell Me Why', a children's magazine Balarama and
the men's lifestyle magazine The Man (www.theman.in). The group has also diversified
into TV (Manorama News), radio (Radio Mango), internet (manoramaonline.com)and
programming (Manorama Vision).
Madhyamam Daily
Madhyamam (Malayalam: മാ�ധ്യ�മാ�, meaning Medium) is a Malayalam daily
newspaperpublished from Kerala, India, since 1987.[1]. It was founded in 1987 by the
initiatives ofJamaat-e-Islami Hind.[2] It has 10 editions in India (7 in Kerala and Mumbai,
Bangalore and Mangalore) and its Gulf edition Gulf Madhyamam has 9 in the Middle
East. According to Indian Readership Survey 2009[3] and IRS 2010 Q4, it is the fourth
largest read newspaper in Kerala with a readership of 9.04 lakh readers.[4] [5] Gulf
Madhyamam is the oldest and largest Malayalam newspaper in the Middle East, with
highest number of editions in the Gulf countries than any other daily in the middle east.[6] The newspaper and its team of journalists have bagged nearly ninety awards
including Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award,Statesman Award for Rural
Reporting, PUCL Journalism Award for Human Rights, ESRWorld Journalism Prize and
the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Developing Asia Journalism Award.[7]
The newspaper exposed multiple stories of land encroachments, farming frauds, and
malpractices in the name of assisted fertility.[7] It also exposed an alleged kidney racket
in tribal settlements in Idukki district of Kerala prompting a public outcry[8] followed by an
in-depth investigation by both the state government[9] and the Indian Medical
Association (IMA)[10] into the incident.
History
Madhyamam began publishing in 1987 at Silver Hills near Calicut. Veteran
journalist, Kuldip Nayar inaugurated the newspaper[13]. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer,
Malayalam writer, described it as "the birth of a silver star". The opening editorial on
June 1, 1987 read:[7]
Madhyamam comes to you, the reader, with a clear sense of purpose... Mass media are
today passing through a period of degeneration. This sphere is not an exception to the
general deterioration of values. The face of truth is being concealed behind the glitter of
gold. In this murky situation we offer wholesome journalism reflective of a healthy
worldview free from narrowness, communalism and extremism. "
The second edition was launched in July 1993 at Cochin followed by the third at
Trivandrum in April 1996.[14] Gulf Madhyamam was first published from Bahrain in 1998
and then from Dubai in 2002 [15]. K C Abdullah, P K Balakrishnan, K A Kodungallur were
among its editors at the early stage.Renowned writer C Radhakrishnan served as its
consultant editor from 1997-99.[16]O Abdurahman is the current Editor of Madhyamam
and VK Hamza Abbas is the Chief Editor of Gulf Madhyamam.[17] Media critique Dr. K
Yasin Ashraf is the associate editor of Madhyamam.
Deshabhimani
Desabhimani
Type Daily newspaper
Owner Communist Party of India
(Marxist) Kerala State
Committee
Editor-in-chief V. V. Dakshinamoorthi
Founded 1942
Political
alignment
Communist
Language Malayalam
Headquarters Kochi, Keralam
Desabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee
of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist). Started as a weekly in Kozhikode on
September 6, 1942 and converted to a daily in 1946. Deshabhimani now has six
different editions:
Kozhikode,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kottayam and Trichur. According to the
National Readership Survey of 1995, Desabhimani was the third largest newspaper in
Kerala.[1] At present, V. V. Dakshinamoorthi, secretariat member of the CPI(M) is the
Chief Editor of the paper and E.P. Jayarajan, CPI-M central committee member, the
General Manager.
History
Deshabhimani has a predecessor, Prabhatham (which means 'Dawn'). It was started in
1935 and was the manifesto of the socialist group in the Indian National Congress. It
was in 1942, through the efforts of eminent leaders like A K Gopalan and E M S
Namboodiripad(who in fact donated all of his ancestral property for raising funds for the
paper) Deshabhimani started and became the voice of the Communist Party of India
(later became Communist Party of India (Marxist)). Various personalities like E.M.S.
Namboodiripad, V T Induchudan, and V. S. Achuthanandan, have served as the chief
editors of Deshabhimani. So many notable Journalists of South India work with
Deshabhimani. P.Govindapillai, Ezhacheri Ramachandran, Prabha Varma, K.R.Ajayan,
P.M. Manoj, A.V. Anilkumar, B.Aburaj,Sunil P. Elayidom, etc are some among them.
Kerala Kaumudi
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Publisher M. S. Ravi
Editor M. S. Madhusoodanan
Editor-in-chief M. S. Mani
Managing
editors
Deepu Ravi
Founded 1911
Language Malayalam
Headquarters Kaumudi Buildings,
Thiruvananthapuram - 695
024,
India
Kerala Kaumudi (Malayalam: നോ�രള��മാ�ദി�) is a popular Malayalam newspaper,
founded in 1911 by C. V. Kunhiraman[1] with K. Sukumaran BA as the founder editor.
Published
fromThiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kannur in Kerala and
Bangalore, Kerala Kaumudi is the third most circulated Malayalam daily.[citation needed] The
paper has online editions in Malayalam and English that are updated twice daily. There
are overseas online editions published from London, New York and Singapore. Mr. M.
S. Mani is the Editor in Chief of the newspaper.
Deepika (newspaper)
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
Editor Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I
Founded April 15, 1887
Headquarters Kottayam
Official website Deepika
Deepika, a Malayalam language newspaper, is one of the oldest newspapers published in India. Started in 1887, it is the oldest Malayalam newspaper now in circulation. Deepika publishes editions from Kottayam, Kochi, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.[1] It was controlled by the Syro Malabar Church of Kerala from its inception till 1989. In August 1989, the Deepika and its sister publications came under the ownership of Rashtra Deepika Ltd., a public limited company. The readership of the newspaper is drawn mainly from the Syro Malabar Catholic laity. Mr. P P Sunny is the Managing Director and Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I is theChief Editor of the newspaper.
History
Deepika has an illustrious history of over a century. It was first published by a Syrian
Christianpriest, Nidhirikkal Manikkathanar, or Father Emmanuel Nidhiri, or Nidhiry Mani
Kathanar, under the masthead Nazrani Deepika. (Nazrani in Malayalam means a
follower of Jesus, the Nazraene). The first issue came out on 1887 April 15, which
coincided with Vishu (the spring equinox festival according to Kerala tradition). The
word "Deepika" in Malayalam means "lamp." Printing was on a crude handmade
wooden press.
As its first name denotes, Deepika began as a paper of Syro Malabar Nasranis or
Catholics of Kerala's Syran tradition. From its very inception it was run by Carmelites of
Mary Immaculate(CMI), a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church. In 1989 its
control was transferred to a Public Limited Company, "Rashtra Deepika Ltd".
Chandrika daily
Chandrika
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Kerala Muslim Printing and
Publishing Co Ltd
Founded 1934, Thalassery
Headquarters Kozhikode
Chandrika is a Malayalam newspaper run by the Indian Union Muslim League, Kerala.
It is published from Kozhikode and was the first attempt to have a newspaper
from Malabar Muslimsto support the political party. It was established in the 1930s at
Thalassery and it has celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in January 2011. Chandrika
started publishing from Kozhikode during 1938-1939.
Chandrika is published from Kozhikode. Former Kerala Chief Minister Mr. C.H.
Mohammed Koya had put in a lot of effort to modernize the newspaper to the one which
we see today. Chandrika is now publishing from
Kozhikode,Kochi,Kannur,Malappuram,Trivandrum & Middle east(Dubai, Bahrain, &
Quatar). Editions will be launched from Riyadh and Jeddah soon.
Chandrika is a group of publications. Chandrika weekly, Mahila chandrika, sports
chandrika and arogya chandrika are published by the group.
Janmabhumi
Janmabhumi Newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Matruka Pracharanalayam
Ltd.
Editor Smt. Leela Menon
Editor-in-chief Shri. Hari. S. Kartha
Managing editors Shri. P. Balakrishnan
Founded 1977
Political
alignment
Bharatiya Janata Party
Language Malayalam
Headquarters Cochin
Janmabhumi Newspaper is an Indian daily newspaper founded in 1977, published in a
broadsheet format and owned by Matruka Pracharanalayam Ltd.
The paper's Managing Director is Kummanam Rajashekharan.
The paper's editor in chief is Hari S. Kartha. [1]
The paper's headquarters are in Cochin.
Janmabhumi is one of the most popular Malayalam newspaper now in circulation[citation
needed]. Janmabhumi publishes editions
from Kochi, Kottayam, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuramand Kozhikode.
Editorial Team is extended with Shri. Hari S. Kartha, who is a senior journalist with
experience in The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Star-News, etc. as Chief
Editor, Smt. Leela Menon as Editor and Shri. P. Balakrishnan as Managing Editor. The
change in Layout and contents brought about by the Team has been widely appreciated
by Readers. Today this publication is the leading voice echoing national aspirations and
anxieties without any fear or favour in this hundred percent literate state where media
plays a crucial role in shaping the perception of the people. It is associated with
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party,
India.
It contains full page issues about Samskriti (Cultural), Sports, Karshikam (Agriculture),
Samakalikam (Recent Events Valuations), Garhikam (House) etc.
Siraj Daily
Siraj
Format Daily
Owner Thoufeeque Publications
Editor VPM Faisy Villyapalli
Founded 1984
Language Malayalam
Headquarters Calicut
Siraj is a daily newspaper in Malayalam language. It was established in 1984. The
newspaper belongs to Thoufeeque Publications. It is published
from Calicut, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi,Kannur and Dubai. The head office of the
newspaper is at Calicut. The editor is VPM Faisy Villyapalli.
Thejas daily
Thejas is a Malayalam news daily run by Intermedia Publishing Ltd., a Public Limited
Company based in Calicut. Thejas is the Malayalam mouthpiece of Popular front of
india. It started functioning from Republic Day of India in Feb 2006. Within a short span
of three months it started another edition from Trivandrum followed by the third edition
from Cochin within another three months.
Editions
It started publishing its news paper from Kozhikode. But now it is expanded to have
more edition in 2006 with Trivandrum and Ernakulameditions.Also Kannur edition
started in 2008 as part of the expansion.On December 2009, it started its Kottayam
edition.It has an online edition and e-paper also
Varthamanam daily
Varthamanam is a Malayalam daily published from Calicut, Cochin, and Doha by Media
View Limited. Well known Malayalam critic and orator Sukumar Azhikode was the
founding chief editor of the newspaper. Jafar Atholi is the editor in charge of
Varthamanam now. Varthamanam as a newspaper uplifting humanity and morality of
Muslim reformation movement of Kerala. It is quite natural that every reformist activities
will have to face challenges. This venture has also had its distractors all through its
journey from within and outside. However the daily has been keeping its high values in
reporting and editorial. Even the media faced financial crisis in some months its
management and editorial made no compromises in keeping its values.
History
It is an association of enlightened group who took up novel idea to start a new
journalistic tradition without usual masalas. The daily was one of the products of a
limited company registered under the Indian companies Act 1956 by name Media view
Ltd. Though it is in its infancy its expose on godmen in Kerala has created a wave in the
country. It is treading forward into progress. Now a new edition from Kannur is going to
start . At this juncture the untimely demise of its founder and associate editor
Aboobacker Karakkunu is a sad 'varthamanam' for the well wishers of the paper. He
was an inspiration for all of us.