Mint (newspaper)

Mint is an Indian business and financial daily newspaper published by HT Media, a Delhi-based media group which is controlled by the K. K. Birla family that also publishes Hindustan Times.^[2] Published since 2007, it is a newspaper that specialises in business and politics.^[3]

Mint

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	HT Media
Founder(s)	Raju Narisetti
Founded	1 February 2007
Political alignment	Fiscally conservative, socially liberal
Language	English
Headquarters	199 Street, Floor 18–20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Bengaluru, 110001
Circulation	133,115 (certified) (Indian Readership Survey, 2013 – MRUC)[1]
Sister newspapers	Hindustan Times Hindustan
Website	www.livemint.com

It publishes a single national edition distributed in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. Unlike most mainstream newspapers from India, Mint is not published on Sunday. Every Saturday, it prints its sister magazine, Mint Lounge. It is India's first newspaper to be published in the Berliner format. The former editor of the Wall Street Journal India, Raju Narisetti ran mint from its founding in 2007 to 2008.^[4] Narisetti was succeeded by Sukumar Ranganathan, who served as editor until 2017.^[5]

In 2014, Mint and the Journal ended their seven-year editorial partnership.^[6] The companies now have a content syndication agreement as well as a subscriptions bundle. In 2017, former editor of Khaleej Times Vinay R. Kamat was appointed as Editor, replacing Sukumar Ranganathan.^[7][8] In November 2020, Sruthijith Kurupichankandy, better known as SK, was appointed Editor-in-chief.^[9]

History

Launch

Mint began in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal on 1 February 2007, with the Journal's former deputy managing editor, Raju Narisetti as its founding editor.^[10]

Relaunch

In 2016, Mint changed from the Berliner format it popularised in India and became a broadsheet. Mint also publishes Mint Lounge as a Saturday cultural edition.^[11]

Website

After struggling in the initial years, the Livemint website is now the second most read business news website in India, behind The Economic Times.^[12] After HT Media Limited acquired VCCircle from News Corp in 2020, the Livemint website also shares content with the VCCircle and TechCircle websites. The Deals, Tech and Startups page on the Mint newspaper routinely gets content from both VCCircle and TechCircle.^[13]

Notable employees (past and present)

• Tamal Bandyopadhyay
• Melissa Bell
• Mitra Kalita
• Samanth Subramanian
• Pallavi Singh
• Sidin Vadukut, columnist,^[14] previously managing editor of livemint.com^{[citation needed]}
• Priya Ramani

References

1. "Mint". HT Media. Archived from the original on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
2. "HT Media launches business daily". The Hindustan Times. 31 January 2007.
3. Singh, Sandeep (7 November 2017). "Paradise Papers: Hindustan Times Group set up firm in Bermuda, showed Rs 7 cr loss". The Indian Express. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
4. "Mint founding editor Raju Narisetti quits, managing editor Sukumar to step in his shoes". financialexpress.com. 28 December 2008. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
5. "Mint Editor Sukumar Ranganathan To Take Over As Editor-In-Chief Of Hindustan Times". huffingtonpost.in. 22 September 2017. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
6. "India's Mint and The Wall Street Journal end their seven-year partnership". qz.com. 30 September 2014. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
7. "Vinay Kamat is new editor of Mint". Press Institute of India. 27 December 2017. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
8. "Vinay Kamat to take over from Sukumar Ranganathan as new editor of Mint". newslaundry.com. 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
9. "Sruthijith KK appointed Editor in Chief of Mint". Exchange4media. 16 November 2020.
10. Kar, Kalyan (16 April 2006). "HT Media to launch business daily; appoints Wall Street Journal's Raju Narisetti as Head of Editorial". Exchange4Media.
11. "About Us : Mint Lounge". lifestyle.livemint.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
12. Manek, Shreedhar (10 February 2020). "Beating ET: Unboxing Mint's defiance of online media". The Ken. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
13. "HT Media to acquire VCCircle and TechCircle". Business Line. 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
14. "Cubiclenama". Mint. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Mint ePaper (E-Paper – Digital Replica of the newspaper)
• Interview with Raju Narisetti, Mint
• Mint Market Info (Money Mint Market Information)
• Mint on Twitter