Samir Jain (born 11 March 1954) is an Indian
publisher
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
and the vice-chairman and managing director (VCMD) of
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., also known as
The Times Group
Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), d/b/a the Times Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in Mumbai. Notable media properties owned and operated by the group include India's largest selling daily English-language newspaper ''The ...
, a leading
media conglomerate
A media conglomerate, media company, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, video games, amusement parks, or ...
with its primary base of operations in India, which publishes ''
The Times of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...
'' and has many other interests. Jain belongs to the
Sahu Jain
The Sahu Jain family is an industrial family of India. They own Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (commonly known as The Times Group), which owns ''The Times of India'', the most-circulated English-language newspaper in the world. The members of th ...
family, an industrialist family of India.
Career
In 1975, Samir joined
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
[Auletta. Page 55.]
During his time, ''
The Times of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...
'' has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.
Top 10 English Dailies: Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 — Quarter 1 , Newswatch
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References
Further reading
*Auletta, Ken: "Citizens Jain – Why India's Newspaper Industry is Thriving". The New Yorker, 8 October 2012, Pages 52 to 61.
*Subramanian, Samanth :
Supreme Being : How Samir Jain created the modern Indian Newspaper Industry
, Caravan Magazine, 1 December 2012.
*Menon Malhan, Sangita P, "The TOI Story: How a Newspaper Changed the Rules of the Game" (2013) HarperCollins India
External links
Indiatimes Times of India
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1954 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Delhi
Indian newspaper publishers (people)
Indian mass media owners
Indian billionaires
The Times Group people
20th-century Indian businesspeople
People from Bijnor district