1. ACCESS TO ONLINE NEWSPAPERS OF INDIA: AN OVERVIEW
Dr. O.N. CHAUBEY
Dr. R. CHANDRA

2. INDIAN NEWSPAPERS IN ENGLISH: GENESIS
BENGAL GAZETTE OR CALCUTTA GENERAL ADVERTISER
IN 1780;
The Times of India in 1838
The Statesman from Calcutta in 1875
The Hindu from Chennai in 1878
The Bengal Journal, The Oriental Magazine, The Calcutta Chronicle,
The Madras Courier, The Indian Herald, The Bombay Herald and The
Bombay Courier.

3. The period between 1857 - 1947 Birth and closure of a multitude of
newspapers.
The famous freedom fighters as Editors like:
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Kesari)
Mahatma Gandhi (Young India, Harijan
and Navajeevan
Post-Independence scene
India had about 4,000 newspapers and
magazines in 17 languages.
51,960 that included dailies and
publications of all the periodicities, in ,413 at the end of March 2005
62,483 on 31st March 2006,

4. THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS IN INDIAN LANGUAGES
The Samachar Darpan in Bengali. The first issue of this daily was published from the Serampore Mission Press on May 23, 1818.
In the same year, Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya started publishing another newspaper in Bengali, the Bengal Gazetti In 1818.
SAMBAD KAUMUDI , in Bengali in 1820.
Miratul-ul-Akhbar in Persian language;
On July 1, 1822 the first Gujarati newspaper the Bombay Samachar was published from Bombay, which is still extant.
The first Hindi newspaper, the Samachar Sudha Varshan began in 1854.
Malayala Manorama in Malayalam language from Kerala state in 1888.

5. REGISTRAR OF NEWSPAPERS FOR INDIA: PRESS IN INDIA HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE YEAR2007-2008
*The total number of registered newspapers, as on 31st March, 2008: 69,323 *The number of new newspapers registered during : 4,332 *The total circulation of newspapers : 20,71,08,115 *The largest circulated Daily: The Hindu,English,Chennai : 12,75,553
*The second largest circulated Daily: Ananda Bazar Patrika,Bengali,Kolkata : 12,55,850 *The third largest circulated Daily: Eenadu,Telugu,Hyderabad : 11,81,844
*The second largest circulated multi-edition Daily: Eenadu,Telugu,(23 editions):22,27,025 *The state with the largest number of registered newspapers (Uttar Pradesh):10,779

6. The film is the first of its kind reports on the newspaper in India and examines its role in India’s democratic and multicultural, multilingual society.

7. Metrics
Newspapers in India are measured on two parameters, circulation and readership.
Circulation
Circulation is certified by the Audit bureau of Circulation which is an industry body. It audits the paid-for circulation of the member newspaper companies.
Readership
Readership is estimated by two different surveys, The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) and the National Readership Survey (NRS).

8. The National Readership Study 2005 (NRS 2005) in India
The National Readership Study 2005 (NRS 2005) in India is the largest survey of its kind in the world, with a sample size of over 2,61,212 house-to-house interviews to track the media exposure and changing consumer trends in both urban and rural India - and of course the estimated readership of publications.
The study covers 522 publications (221 dailies and 301 magazines)

9. FINDINGS
An addition of 21 million readers to the print media between 2002 and 2005.
Of the 200 million readers, as many as 98 million are from rural India and 101 million from urban India.
314 million people who could read and understand one or another language but who did not read any publication.
Rising of Dailies from 23% to 24%
In 2005, the average urban adult spent 42 minutes a day reading dailies; Three years earlier, the average reading time was 32 minutes.
In rural India, it reading time was 35 minutes in 2005 but in 2002, the average reading time was 32 minutes.

10. SITES ON ONLINE NEWSPAPERS OF INDIA -
› Directory › News and Media
› Asia Pacific -
AND MANY, MANY MORE

11. ONLINE NEWSPAPERS : LANGUAGEWISE
LANGUAGES
NO. OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERES
Arabic 1
Assamese 8
Bengali 15
English
114
Gujarati 13
Hindi 45
Kannada 11
Malayalam 10
Marathi 12
Nepali 2
Oriya
Sanskrit
Punjabi 6
Tamil 25
Telugu
Tibetan
Urdu

12. ONLINE NEWSPAPERS: STATEWISE
States
No. Online Newspapers
Andhra Pradesh 18
Maharashtra 34
Assam 11
Manipur 5
Bihar 4
Meghalaya 1
Chandigarh
Mizo
Delhi 44
Orissa 9
Goa
Punjab 7
Gujarat 12
Rajasthan
Haryana 3
Sikkim 2
Himachal Pradesh
Tamil Nadu 40
Jammu & Kashmir
Tripura
Karnataka 22
Uttar Pradesh 10
Kerala 14
West Bengal 21
Madhya Pradesh 6

13. Online News Category Sees Record Number of Visitors in October 2009
15.8 million visitors nearly 16 million people visited an online news site in India
age 15 and older
representing 44 percent of the online population in India.
A gain of 37 percent from the previous year.
An average visitor to the news/information category spent 22 minutes on news sites
Consumed 38 pages of content
Mumbai, India, December 14, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR

14. Top 10 News/Information Sites in India : Visitors in October 2009
Source: comScore World Metrix
Average Minutes per Visitor
Average Pages per Visitor
Total Internet : Total Audience
700.6
1,155
News/Information 22 38
Yahoo! News
3.6 9
New York Times Digital
3.7 5
The Times of India
14.3 27
Oneindia.in
5.8 13
The Hindu Group 4
The Indian Express Group
5.3 7
HT Media Ltd
11.5 24
NDTV.com
11.3 15
BBC
7.6
The Economic Times 10 20

15. TOP 10 NEWS/INFORMATION SITES IN INDIA BASED ON VISITORS
TOP 10 NEWS/INFORMATION SITES IN INDIA BASED ON VISITORS. (BETWEEN OCTOBER 2009 Vs OCTOBER 2008
Total India Internet Audience, Age Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Total Unique Visitors (000)
Oct-2008
Oct-2009
% Change
Total Internet : Total Audience
31,179
36,170 16
News/Information
11,529
15,838 37
Yahoo! News
3,312
4,169 26
New York Times Digital
2,306
3,854 67
The Times of India
1,476
2,626 78
Oneindia.in
949
2,359
148
The Hindu Group
1,299
1,551 19
The Indian Express Group
925
1,244 35
HT Media Ltd
1,088
1,155 6
NDTV.com
848
1,104 30
BBC
777
992 28
The Economic Times
769
820 7

16. SURVEY ON READERSHIP : FUNDED BY UGC
HIGHLIGHTS:
The female English Internet newspaper readers: 13%
(This has doubled from the previous study);
The majority of readership is in the age group of years,
and it is more in states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi,
Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh;
Majority of the readers are highly educated i.e. 60%
Browsing online newspapers mainly for news – 95%
Browsing for Book/film/theatre reviews %
Advertisements %.

17. CONTINUED:
Reading more about business & economy – 69%,
politics – 60%,
science & technology -60%.
Sports news is favoured only by 37% of the users.
Matrimonial advertisements by about 2.5%
readers
Readers of Cartoons - only 0.44%

18. MAJOR PLAYER
According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008, the Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of million. This ranks the Times of India as the top English
newspaper in India by readership.
According to Comscore. TOI Online is the
world's most-visited newspaper website
with 159 million page views in May 2009,
ahead of the New York Times, The Sun,
Washington Post, Daily Mail, and USA Today Websites.

19. DAINIK JAGRAN
Dainik Jagran, is a world's Largest Hindi Portal and it is the 17th most widely read newspaper in the world. It was the brainchild of the freedom fighter Mr. Puranchandra Gupta. The first edition was launched in Jhansi in 1942 and in 1947 Dainik Jagran shifted its headquarters to Kanpur where it launched its second edition on 21 September, 1947.
Dainik Jagran is India's largest circulated Hindi daily, with Million Readers according to National Readership Survey. It is the first Indian publication to cross the 20 million mark.

20. Sudharma, the only Sanskrit daily newspaper in India, began its online version in June By going online Sudharma is planning to attract advertisers, which is essential for the survival of the only Sanskrit daily

21. ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
THE TIMES OF INDIA ( )
THE HINDU ( )
HINDUSTAN TIMES ( )
THE INDIAN EXPRESS ( )
THE TELEGRAPH ( )
THE STATESMAN ( )
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS ( )
DNA ( )
ECONOMIC TIMES ( )
PUNJABNEWSLINE ( )