Business Standard

Business Standard
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Founder(s) ABP Group
Publisher Business Standard Ltd
Founded 26 March 1975
Language English
Hindi
Headquarters Nehru House
4, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110002
Circulation 217,000
OCLC number 496280002
Website www.business-standard.com
hindi.business-standard.com

Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published by Business Standard Ltd (BSL) in two languages, English and Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper primarily covers India and international business, and financial news and issues. The main English-language edition comes from 12 regional centres,[1] New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, and Kochi—and reaches readers in over 1,000 towns and cities across India.[2]

Personnel

T. N. Ninan was editor from 1993 to 2009, when he took up the editorship of The Economic Times. In January 2010, Ninan became chairman and editorial director of BSL and was succeeded as editor of Business Standard by Dr Sanjaya Baru. He was the media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Veteran journalist and editor Ashok K Bhattacharya took charge of the paper after Baru quit to join a UK based think tank in 2011.[3] The paper is India's second largest business daily and employs more than 200 business journalists, including Nitin Sethi[4] and Shyamal Majumdar.[5]

Business Standard has established a pedigree of strong financial journalism and is known for its accuracy. It has a large number of respected individuals from the world of finance as regular columnists like, Bimal Jalan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Subir Gokarn former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Shankar Acharya, former chief economic advisor to the Government of India; Deepak Lal, professor of economics, UCLA; Suman Bery, director-general, National Council of Applied Economic Research; Abheek Barua, chief economist of HDFC Bank; Nitin Desai, former chief economic advisor and former under-secretary general at the United Nations; Surjit Bhalla, chairman of OXUS; Arvind Subramanian, professor at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; M. Govinda Rao, director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; AV Rajwade, foreign exchange consultant; and Arvind Singhal, chairman, Technopak Advisors.

Distribution and format

Business Standard sells 217,000 copies daily (English and Hindi included).

ACNielsen's survey of the Upper middle class and Rich Market in India places Business Standard next to The Economic Times in total readership.

The paper has a reputation for reliable reporting responsible journalism, stimulating page of analysis and editorial comments. It has pioneered the ranking of the wealthiest Indians (the Billionaire Club) and provides an auto-mobile magazine as a free monthly supplement.

In 2006, BSL began to produce a Sunday edition that is now published in four centres.

The Hindi edition was launched in February 2008 from seven centres stretching from Mumbai in the west, running across the Hindi Belt, and to Kolkata in the east.

BSL also publishes various periodicals, including BS Motoring,[6] Indian Management and the Asian Management Review.

Electronic

The newspaper's website allows visitors to access the Business Standard e-paper, with a choice of editions. The Business Standard website receives 11.5 million page views and has 2 million unique users per month, the highest for any "stand alone" newspaper website in India.[7]

In January 2010, it launched SmartInvestor,[8] an information-cum-trading website for those interested in stock market (The website appears to be in beta phase 6 years after its launch as can be seen on its homepage).

As of June 2016, Business Standard has become first Indian newspaper with high subscription to limit access to its articles. It has also started blocking access to users who use Adblocker tool on similar lines as to what Times of India,[9] does for its online articles. The 'Opinion' pieces which are basically editorials are now locked for open access and can be seen as a locked key symbol[10] on the webpage. These articles are now accessible only using a Business Standard monthly subsciption ,[11] which is available as a standalone subscription or in conjunction with WSJ where users get discounted access to WSJ. The details of this deal between two news websites are not publicly known.

References

  1. ↑ "Business Standard, Latest News, Videos, Photos on Business Standard".
  2. ↑ Business Standard. "About Us - Brand - Business Standard".
  3. ↑ "AK Bhattacharya replaces Sanjaya Baru as Editor of BS - Best Media Info, News and Analysis on Indian Advertising, Marketing and Media Industry.".
  4. ↑ Business Standard. "Author - Nitin Sethi - Business Standard - Page 1".
  5. ↑ Business Standard. "Author - Shyamal Majumdar - Business Standard - Page 1".
  6. ↑ "New Cars & Bikes Reviews - Car News - Wallpapers - Prices - Comparisons - Pictures - Buying Tips - BS Motoring".
  7. ↑ "About us" (About us page). Business Standard. Business Standard Ltd. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  8. ↑ "The Smart Investor".
  9. ↑ "Fight against Adblocker started by Indian Newspapers".
  10. ↑ "BS Opinions Page".
  11. ↑ "BS Subsciption service".

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