The Print is an Indian
online newspaper
An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the electronic publishing, online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical literature, periodical.
Goin ...
, owned by Printline Media Pvt Ltd.
It was launched by
journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism.
Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is an Indian journalist and author. He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ''ThePrint''. He is also a columnist for the ''Business Standard'' and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturda ...
in August 2017.
History
Printline Media Pvt. Ltd, founded by journalist
Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is an Indian journalist and author. He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ''ThePrint''. He is also a columnist for the ''Business Standard'' and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturda ...
,
was incorporated in
New Delhi
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,
India
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on 16 September 2016.
ThePrint is noted for focusing on politics and policy.
The venture is associated with the ''Off the Cuff'' programme that is broadcast on and promoted on ThePrint's
YouTube
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and
Facebook
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channels.
In May 2017, It has received an undisclosed amount of funding from
N.R. Narayana Murthy,
Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. After the exit of Vishal S ...
,
Ratan Tata
Ratan Naval Tata (28 December 1937 9 October 2024) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012 and he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to Feb ...
,
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw,
Uday Kotak
Uday Suresh Kotak (born 15 March 1959) is an Indian billionaire banker and founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank, where he is a non-executive director. He resigned from his CEO position in September 2023. He handed over the digital banking CEO role t ...
,
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born 7 June 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur, and the founder and chief executive officer of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm.
In January 2022, the ICANN-supported Universal Acceptance Steering ...
, Rajiv C. Mody, Ravi Thakran,
Bhavish Aggarwal,
Nirmal Jain,
R. Venkatraman,
Karan Bhagat and Yatin Shah.
Gupta, as his position in editor-in-chief, in a letter to readers stated the mission of the ThePrint was to be "factual and liberal".
ThePrint has claimed to commit to its code of ethics for journalists which it has published on its website.
Products
Website
ThePrint, being a new media digital platform primarily publishes its news stories on its website with majority of coverage in the
English language
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. The platform additionally has a
Hindi language
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edition of the website as well. The news coverage is divided into factual news reporting and opinion pieces.
Subscription
The website is primarily supported by digital ad revenue, however it allows one time donations and recurring subscription from patrons.
Off The Cuff
Off The Cuff is a series of candid talk shows organized in collaboration with and launched in February 2016, though recent editions have been online only editions hosted by ThePrint alone. It hosts prominent personalities from across the spectrum in engaging conversations, some of its prominent guests being
Amish Tripathi,
Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF ...
,
Martin Wolf
Martin Harry Wolf (born 16 August 1946 in London) is a British journalist who focuses on economics. He is the chief economics commentator at the ''Financial Times''. He also writes a weekly column for the French newspaper ''Le Monde''.
Earl ...
and
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar, best known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992). In this work he argues th ...
.
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Newspapers established in 2017
Indian news websites
2017 establishments in Delhi