Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is one of India's largest English-language daily newspapers, based in New Delhi and owned by HT Media. It covers national politics, business, sport, and international affairs in print and online. As a leading mainstream broadsheet, it reaches a broad urban readership across the country.
Hindustan Times at a glance
- Country
- India
- Region
- South Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1924
- Owner
- HT Media
- Published from
- New Delhi
- Website
- hindustantimes.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Hindustan Times
Crosswire groups Hindustan Times as Centrist for comparisons within India's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In India, The Hindu is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Hindustan Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Hindustan Times sits in India's press
Hindustan Times was founded in 1924, is published from New Delhi and is owned by HT Media. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in India, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Hindu, Times of India and The Indian Express. By outlets tracked, India ranks 16th of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Hindustan Times outside India, starting with South Asia, are Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka), The Kathmandu Post (Nepal), Kuensel (Bhutan) and Mihaaru (Maldives). Opening one of them beside Hindustan Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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