Malayalam language The following newspapers are published in the Malayalam language in India

Mathrubhumi
Mathrubhumi Type Format Owner Daily newspaper Broadsheet The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Ltd. P.V.Chandran M.Kesava Menon 1923 Independent[1]

Publisher Editor Founded Political alignment Headquarters Circulation Official website

Kozhikode above 12 lakhs daily mathrubhumi.com

Mathrubhumi (Malayalam: ) is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in theIndian freedom struggle against the British. History Based in the northern Kerala town of Kozhikode (Calicut), Mathrubhumi was founded in 1923 in the aftermath of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement as a public limited company. This status makes it rare among newspapers, which tend to be closely held private companies owned by a single family. The newspaper's founders were members of the Indian National Congress led by K.P. Kesava Menon (1886- 1978); its shareholders included about 350 men and women of Kerala. Though Mathrubhumi lost money regularly in its early years, that did not matter, its historian noted in 1973, because its goals were not those of business but of social oppression and unrest. It battled gallantly with British authorities before independence and bitterly with Kerala's Communists from the late 1930s. By the 1940s, as Kerala's literate and politicised character forced itself to the attention of officials, the British acknowledged that Mathrubhumi, reaches every village in the district [of Malabar] and... [a] mischievous attack of the Police [in Mathrubhumi] is likely to do, a great deal of harm among the mass of the people who are able to read but not able to think for themselves. Mathrubhumi played important roles in many social reformation movements such as Vaikom Satyagraha and Guruvayur Satyagraha against untouchability. Participating in the Satyagraha, K.P. Keasava Menon was arrested and was sent to Jail. Independence activists such as P. Ramanunni Nair, K. Kelappan, P. Narayanan Nair, C. H. Kunjappa, K. A. Damodara Menon, and A. P. Udhayabhanu have served as Chief Editors of the newspaper, and also mathrubhumi has also witnessed some of the very splendid IAS / Civil Service officers as editors. Mathrubhumi was Kerala's leading daily with an estimated circulation of 19,000 at independence in 1947, which rose quickly to 26,000 by 1952. The bitter struggle between the Congress and the Communists in Kerala gave a Congress newspaper not only a reason for existence but a steady supply of electrifying stories for eager readers. The conduct of the newspaper remained with the old nationalists who had founded it and who comprised most of the shareholders, most of whom, it was said, had little idea where they had put their ancient share certificates.

Commercial competition became noticeable after the formation of Kerala state in 1957. Mathrubhumi had been slow to join the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as its certificate No. 143 suggests. A struggle began among the shareholders for control of the company. The 5,000 shares at Rs 5 each, which had floated the newspaper in 1923, acquired undreamt- of value. By the 1990s, with control of the newspaper contested, they traded at thousands of rupees each. The struggle to control Mathrubhumi eventually reached the Supreme Court of India and illustrated the value of a newspaper and the way in which languages and local honour provide at least a hindrance to the acquisition of newspapers by 'outside' capitalists. In 1993, Mathrubhumi's general manager - finance described the financial structure and compulsions of the company. When the newspaper was floated in the 1920s, 3,479 of the 5,000 shares were purchased at a nominal fee of Rs 5 each by 352 different shareholders, 203 of whom bought only one share each. Even in the 1990s, no single person owned more than 225 shares. Mathrubhumi was a "public limited company in the true sense". Shareholders elect nine directors for two-year terms, one-third being elected each year. The late 1970s brought two important changes. First, the old nationalists, who had run the newspaper as a kind of public trust, began to disappear. Second, the economic climate in India and in Kerala began to become more unapologetically capitalist. Mathrubhumi, which under its old regime was a Kerala institution and also an effectively run business, came to be seen as a valuable asset. Its control could provide wealth and certainly provided influence and prestige. Shares in Mathrubhumi began to be traded in a way that was inconceivable 10 years earlier. Indeed, when the share book was tidied up in the mid-1980s, it was found that there were dozens of partly paid-up shares whose owners were long dead or unknown. Such shares were forfeited, making the remaining valid shares even more valuable. A keen contest to control the company began, in which M.P. Veerendra Kumar, a wealthy planter and political aspirant, who held about 3% of the shares, emerged as the dominant shareholder and became managing director. In the course of this struggle, M.D. Nalapat, another shareholder and editor from 1984-87, whose mother, the writer Kamala Das, also held shares, was forced off the board of directors. Nalapat then broke the rules as they had existed uptill that time: he sold his shares (at Rs l2,500 each) not merely outside of Kerala but to India's wealthiest newspaper chain, Bennett, Coleman &

Co., owners of The Times of India in Bombay. Nalapat and his supporters sold close to 20% of the shares in Mathrubhumi. Though this was scarcely a controlling interest, others saw the sale as the beginning of a Times of India takeover of a Kerala institution, and, according to Nalapat, an "innate sense of paranoia surfaced". The dominant shareholders appealed against the sale to the Kerala High Court which ruled that because The Times of India was a competitor of Mathrubhumi, the sale was invalid. Some saw the court's decision more as a response to Kerala sentiment than to the requirements of the law. The Times of India appealed to the Supreme Court of India where the case was still pending in the mid-1990s. In 1932 the company entered Magazine Journalism with the launch of Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly. In 1940, Viswaroopam, a comic magazine was launched with Sanjayan as the Chief Editor. Yugaprabhat, a bi-monthly in Hindi was also published whose editor was N. V. Krishna Warrier. But now, these two publications are not in print. Mathrubhumi is topmost circulated newspaper in Kerala and is headquartered in Calicut. Inside Kerala, it is published from Calicut,Thiruvananthapuram, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur, Palakkad, Malap puram, Kollam and Alappuzha. Outside Kerala, it is published fromChennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, and New Delhi. It has a current readership of 94,44,000 as per the Indian Readership Survey 2009 (Round 1) M. P. Veerendra Kumar, former minister for state, Govt. of India [Janata Dal state President] is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mathrubhumi. P.V. Chandran is the Managing Editor. M. Kesava Menon is the Editor of Mathrubhumi daily. M. V .Shreyams Kumar is the Director-Marketing and P. V. Nidhish is the Director-Editorial Administration. P. V. Ganagadharan, Industrialist of KTC Group, Calicut is a Director in Mathrubhumi Board.

Malayala Manorama

Malayala Manorama

Type Format Owner

Daily newspaper Broadsheet Malayala Manorama Group Mammen Mathew 1888 Pro-Congress

Editor-in-chief Founded Political alignment Language Headquarters Circulation Official website

Malayalam Kottayam 19,03,000 daily manoramaonline.com

Malayala Manorama (Malayalam: ) is a daily news paper, in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million (with a

circulation base of over 1.8 million copies)[citation needed]. The Malayalam word "manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer". The Week (India), an Indian weekly is also brought out by the Manorama Group. Manorama Yearbook is another popular yearly publication by the Kottayam- Kozhikode based Manorama Group. It has 32 publications all over India in five languages (English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali)

History A joint stock publishing company, destined to acquire the status of the first joint stock publishing company of Republic of India, was incorporated by in 1888 by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam, then a small town in the Kingdom of Travancore, currently, a part of Kerala state, India. The first issue of Malayala Manorama was published on March 22,1890 from the press owned by Malankara Metropolitan Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious II of the Indian Orthodox Church. The name Malayala Manorama was chosen by the poet, Raghavan Nambiar, Villuvarvattathu from Tiruvalla. Kerala Varma granted the symbol which is a part of the Travancore kingdom symbol. In a period of two years, from the date of incorporation until the publication commenced, the company witnessed several challenges. Presently, it also publishes several other publications, including the english news magazine The Week (the-week.com), the women's mag Vanitha (in Malayalam and Hindi), an information oriented monthly called 'Tell Me Why', a children's magazine Balarama and the men's lifestyle magazine The Man (www.theman.in). The group has also diversified into TV (Manorama News), radio (Radio Mango), internet (manoramaonline.com)and programming (Manorama Vision).

Madhyamam Daily
Madhyamam (Malayalam: , meaning Medium) is a Malayalam daily

newspaperpublished from Kerala, India, since 1987.[1]. It was founded in 1987 by the initiatives ofJamaat-e-Islami Hind.[2] It has 10 editions in India (7 in Kerala and Mumbai, Bangalore and Mangalore) and its Gulf edition Gulf Madhyamam has 9 in the Middle East. According to Indian Readership Survey 2009[3] and IRS 2010 Q4, it is the fourth largest read newspaper in Kerala with a readership of 9.04 lakh readers. [4] [5] Gulf Madhyamam is the oldest and largest Malayalam newspaper in the Middle East, with highest number of editions in the Gulf countries than any other daily in the middle east.[6] The newspaper and its team of journalists have bagged nearly ninety awards including Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award,Statesman Award for Rural Reporting, PUCL Journalism Award for Human Rights, ESRWorld Journalism Prize and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Developing Asia Journalism Award.[7] The newspaper exposed multiple stories of land encroachments, farming frauds, and malpractices in the name of assisted fertility.[7] It also exposed an alleged kidney racket in tribal settlements in Idukki district of Kerala prompting a public outcry[8] followed by an in-depth investigation by both the state government[9] and the Indian Medical Association (IMA)[10] into the incident.

History Madhyamam began publishing in 1987 at Silver Hills near Calicut. Veteran journalist, Kuldip Nayar inaugurated the newspaper[13]. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Malayalam writer, described it as "the birth of a silver star". The opening editorial on June 1, 1987 read:[7] Madhyamam comes to you, the reader, with a clear sense of purpose... Mass media are today passing through a period of degeneration. This sphere is not an exception to the general deterioration of values. The face of truth is being concealed behind the glitter of gold. In this murky situation we offer wholesome journalism reflective of a healthy worldview free from narrowness, communalism and extremism. "

The second edition was launched in July 1993 at Cochin followed by the third at Trivandrum in April 1996.[14] Gulf Madhyamam was first published from Bahrain in 1998 and then from Dubai in 2002 [15]. K C Abdullah, P K Balakrishnan, K A Kodungallur were among its editors at the early stage.Renowned writer C Radhakrishnan served as its consultant editor from 1997-99.[16]O Abdurahman is the current Editor of Madhyamam and VK Hamza Abbas is the Chief Editor of Gulf Madhyamam.[17] Media critique Dr. K Yasin Ashraf is the associate editor of Madhyamam.

Deshabhimani

Desabhimani

Type Owner

Daily newspaper Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Committee

Editor-in-chief Founded Political alignment Language Headquarters

V. V. Dakshinamoorthi 1942 Communist

Malayalam Kochi, Keralam

Desabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist). Started as a weekly in Kozhikode on September 6, 1942 and converted to a daily in 1946. Deshabhimani now has six different editions: Kozhikode,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kottayam and Trichur. According to the National Readership Survey of 1995, Desabhimani was the third largest newspaper in Kerala.[1] At present, V. V. Dakshinamoorthi, secretariat member of the CPI(M) is the Chief Editor of the paper and E.P. Jayarajan, CPI-M central committee member, the General Manager. History Deshabhimani has a predecessor, Prabhatham (which means 'Dawn'). It was started in 1935 and was the manifesto of the socialist group in the Indian National Congress. It was in 1942, through the efforts of eminent leaders like A K Gopalan and E M S Namboodiripad(who in fact donated all of his ancestral property for raising funds for the paper) Deshabhimani started and became the voice of the Communist Party of India (later became Communist Party of India (Marxist)). Various personalities like E.M.S. Namboodiripad, V T Induchudan, and V. S. Achuthanandan, have served as the chief editors of Deshabhimani. So many notable Journalists of South India work with Deshabhimani. P.Govindapillai, Ezhacheri Ramachandran, Prabha Varma, K.R.Ajayan, P.M. Manoj, A.V. Anilkumar, B.Aburaj,Sunil P. Elayidom, etc are some among them.

Kerala Kaumudi

Type Format Publisher Editor Editor-in-chief Managing editors Founded Language Headquarters

Daily newspaper Broadsheet M. S. Ravi M. S. Madhusoodanan M. S. Mani Deepu Ravi

1911 Malayalam Kaumudi Buildings, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 024, India

Kerala Kaumudi (Malayalam: ) is a popular Malayalam newspaper, founded in 1911 by C. V. Kunhiraman[1] with K. Sukumaran BA as the founder editor. Published fromThiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kannur in Kerala and Bangalore, Kerala Kaumudi is the third most circulated Malayalam daily.[citation needed] The paper has online editions in Malayalam and English that are updated twice daily. There

are overseas online editions published from London, New York and Singapore. Mr. M. S. Mani is the Editor in Chief of the newspaper.

Deepika (newspaper)
Type Format Owner Editor Founded Headquarters Daily newspaper Broadsheet Rashtra Deepika Ltd. Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I April 15, 1887 Kottayam

Official website Deepika

Deepika, a Malayalam language newspaper, is one of the oldest newspapers published in India. Started in 1887, it is the oldest Malayalam newspaper now in circulation. Deepika publishes editions from Kottayam, Kochi, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.[1] It was controlled by the Syro Malabar Church of Kerala from its inception till 1989. In August 1989, the Deepika and its sister publications came under the ownership of Rashtra Deepika Ltd., a public limited company. The readership of the newspaper is drawn mainly from the Syro Malabar Catholic laity. Mr. P P Sunny is the Managing Director and Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I is theChief Editor of the newspaper.

History Deepika has an illustrious history of over a century. It was first published by a Syrian Christianpriest, Nidhirikkal Manikkathanar, or Father Emmanuel Nidhiri, or Nidhiry Mani Kathanar, under the masthead Nazrani Deepika. (Nazrani in Malayalam means a follower of Jesus, the Nazraene). The first issue came out on 1887 April 15, which coincided with Vishu (the spring equinox festival according to Kerala tradition). The word "Deepika" in Malayalam means "lamp." Printing was on a crude handmade wooden press. As its first name denotes, Deepika began as a paper of Syro Malabar Nasranis or Catholics of Kerala's Syran tradition. From its very inception it was run by Carmelites of Mary Immaculate(CMI), a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church. In 1989 its control was transferred to a Public Limited Company, "Rashtra Deepika Ltd".

Chandrika daily

Chandrika Type Format Owner Daily newspaper Broadsheet Kerala Muslim Printing and Publishing Co Ltd 1934, Thalassery

Founded

Headquarters Kozhikode

Chandrika is a Malayalam newspaper run by the Indian Union Muslim League, Kerala. It is published from Kozhikode and was the first attempt to have a newspaper from Malabar Muslimsto support the political party. It was established in the 1930s at Thalassery and it has celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in January 2011. Chandrika started publishing from Kozhikode during 1938-1939.

Chandrika is published from Kozhikode. Former Kerala Chief Minister Mr. C.H. Mohammed Koya had put in a lot of effort to modernize the newspaper to the one which we see today. Chandrika is now publishing from Kozhikode,Kochi,Kannur,Malappuram,Trivandrum & Middle east(Dubai, Bahrain, & Quatar). Editions will be launched from Riyadh and Jeddah soon. Chandrika is a group of publications. Chandrika weekly, Mahila chandrika, sports chandrika and arogya chandrika are published by the group.

Janmabhumi
Janmabhumi Newspaper Format Owner Broadsheet Matruka Pracharanalayam Ltd. Smt. Leela Menon Shri. Hari. S. Kartha Shri. P. Balakrishnan

Editor Editor-in-chief Managing editors Founded Political alignment Language Headquarters

1977 Bharatiya Janata Party

Malayalam Cochin

Janmabhumi Newspaper is an Indian daily newspaper founded in 1977, published in a broadsheet format and owned by Matruka Pracharanalayam Ltd. The paper's Managing Director is Kummanam Rajashekharan. The paper's editor in chief is Hari S. Kartha. [1] The paper's headquarters are in Cochin. Janmabhumi is one of the most popular Malayalam newspaper now in circulation[citation needed] . Janmabhumi publishes editions from Kochi, Kottayam, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuramand Kozhikode.

Editorial Team is extended with Shri. Hari S. Kartha, who is a senior journalist with experience in The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Star-News, etc. as Chief Editor, Smt. Leela Menon as Editor and Shri. P. Balakrishnan as Managing Editor. The change in Layout and contents brought about by the Team has been widely appreciated by Readers. Today this publication is the leading voice echoing national aspirations and anxieties without any fear or favour in this hundred percent literate state where media plays a crucial role in shaping the perception of the people. It is associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party, India. It contains full page issues about Samskriti (Cultural), Sports, Karshikam (Agriculture), Samakalikam (Recent Events Valuations), Garhikam (House) etc.

Siraj Daily

Siraj Format Owner Editor Founded Language Headquarters Daily Thoufeeque Publications VPM Faisy Villyapalli 1984 Malayalam Calicut

Siraj is a daily newspaper in Malayalam language. It was established in 1984. The newspaper belongs to Thoufeeque Publications. It is published from Calicut, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi,Kannur and Dubai. The head office of the newspaper is at Calicut. The editor is VPM Faisy Villyapalli.

Thejas daily

Thejas is a Malayalam news daily run by Intermedia Publishing Ltd., a Public Limited Company based in Calicut. Thejas is the Malayalam mouthpiece of Popular front of india. It started functioning from Republic Day of India in Feb 2006. Within a short span of three months it started another edition from Trivandrum followed by the third edition from Cochin within another three months. Editions It started publishing its news paper from Kozhikode. But now it is expanded to have more edition in 2006 with Trivandrum and Ernakulameditions.Also Kannur edition started in 2008 as part of the expansion.On December 2009, it started its Kottayam edition.It has an online edition and e-paper also Varthamanam daily

Varthamanam is a Malayalam daily published from Calicut, Cochin, and Doha by Media View Limited. Well known Malayalam critic and orator Sukumar Azhikode was the founding chief editor of the newspaper. Jafar Atholi is the editor in charge of Varthamanam now. Varthamanam as a newspaper uplifting humanity and morality of Muslim reformation movement of Kerala. It is quite natural that every reformist activities will have to face challenges. This venture has also had its distractors all through its journey from within and outside. However the daily has been keeping its high values in reporting and editorial. Even the media faced financial crisis in some months its management and editorial made no compromises in keeping its values. History It is an association of enlightened group who took up novel idea to start a new journalistic tradition without usual masalas. The daily was one of the products of a limited company registered under the Indian companies Act 1956 by name Media view Ltd. Though it is in its infancy its expose on godmen in Kerala has created a wave in the country. It is treading forward into progress. Now a new edition from Kannur is going to start . At this juncture the untimely demise of its founder and associate editor

Aboobacker Karakkunu is a sad 'varthamanam' for the well wishers of the paper. He was an inspiration for all of us.