The Pioneer (India)

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{{short description|Indian English language newspaper}}
{{about|the newspaper in India|other uses|Pioneer (newspaper)|and|Pioneer (disambiguation)}}
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| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| owners = Sanchar Holdings<ref name="owner">{{cite news |url =https://www.afaqs.com/news/media/31660_ownership-of-pioneer-group-reorganised|title =Ownership of Pioneer Group reorganised|quote =Sanchar Holdings, the new entity formed by Chandan Mitra, Durbar Ganguly and Amit Goel, will hold a 57 per cent stake in The Pioneer Group.|date =15 September 2011|website =afaqs.com|author =Sumantha Rathore|access-date =23 April 2020}}</ref> {{small|(57 %)}} <br/>[[IDBI Bank]] <br/>[[ICICI Bank]] <br/>Rainbow Productions<br/>Starlink Group of Chennai
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| publisher = CMYK Printech Ltd
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| chiefeditor = [[Chandan Mitra]]
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| foundation = 1865 (estd 1864)
| language = English and Hindi
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| circulation = 2,30,000
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| website = [http://www.dailypioneer.com/ DailyPioneer.com]
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'''''The Pioneer''''' is an English language daily newspaper in India.
It is published from multiple locations in [[India]], including [[Delhi]]. It is the second oldest English language newspaper in India still in circulation after ''[[The Times of India]]''.<ref name="Baumgardner1996">{{cite book|author=Robert Jackson Baumgardner|title=South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=750-0hSmo8YC&pg=PR14|access-date=7 December 2017|year=1996|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06493-7|pages=14–}}</ref> In 2010, The Pioneer launched its Hindi version in [[Lucknow]].<ref name=hindi>[http://www.dailypioneer.com/290273/Pioneer-launches-Hindi-edition-in-Lucknow.html Pioneer launches Hindi edition in Lucknow], ''The Pioneer''</ref>

==History==
[[File:Alfred Percy Sinnett.002.jpg|thumb|100x100px|left|Alfred Percy Sinnett (1874)]]
[[File:Rudyard_Kipling_(portrait).jpg|thumb|100x100px|left|[[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865-1936)]]
''The Pioneer'' was founded in [[Allahabad]] in 1865, by George Allen, an Englishman who had great success in the tea business in north-east India in the previous decade.<ref name=dasgupta>Das Gupta, Uma. 1977. "The Indian Press 1870-1880: A Small World of Journalism", ''Modern Asian Studies'', 11(2):213-235. pp 233-234.</ref> It was brought out three times a week from 1865 to 1869 and daily thereafter.<ref name=nla/> In 1866, a supplement, the ''Pioneer Mail'', consisting of "48 quarto-size pages," mostly of advertisements, was added to the publication.<ref name=dasgupta/> In 1872, [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|Alfred Sinnett]] became the editor of the newspaper. Although he was later to be known for his interest in [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophy]], he oversaw the transformation of the newspaper to one of exercising great influence in British India.<ref name=dasgupta/> In 1874, the weekly ''Pioneer Mail'' became the ''Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News'' and began to also feature short stories and travel writings.<ref name=nla>National Library of Australia. 1994. [http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/gen/sanews.html South Asian Newspapers in Australian Libraries: A Holdings List]</ref> Author [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865-1936), in his early 20s, worked at the newspaper office in Allahabad as an assistant editor from November 1887 to March 1889.<ref>The proprietors of ''The Pioneer'' also owned a smaller newspaper, ''The Civil and Military Gazette'', published from [[Lahore]], at which Kipling had worked from 1883 to 1887, and which had served to launch his career as an author.</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2013}}
In July 1933, ''The Pioneer'' was sold to a syndicate<ref>"When, at long last, the Pioneer—India’s greatest and most important paper which used to pay twenty-seven per cent to its shareholders—fell on evil days and, after being bedevilled and bewitched, was sold to a syndicate, and I received a notification beginning; ‘We think you may be interested to know that,’ etc., I felt curiously alone and unsponsored. But my first mistress and most true love, the little ''Civil and Military Gazette'', weathered the storm." From: Kipling, Rudyard. 1937. [http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html ''Something of Myself''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518005744/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html |date=18 May 2008 }}, Chapter III (''Seven Years' Hard''). Available (public domain) at [http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/ Words: University of Newcastle, Australia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710193637/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/ |date=10 July 2007 }}.</ref> and moved from Allahabad to [[Lucknow]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], at which time the ''Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News'' ceased publication.<ref name=nla/>

The newspaper remained a primarily Lucknow-based paper until 1990, when it was purchased by the Thapar Group, under [[L. M. Thapar]], who made it a national newspaper, published from [[Delhi]], [[Lucknow]], [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Kochi]], [[Bhopal]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Dehradun]] and [[Ranchi]]. Thapar sold the paper to its editor [[Chandan Mitra]] in 1998. At that time it had 484 employees. Mitra announced that he intended to seek other investors in due course rather than to remain the owner.<ref>[http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/23D22B2F773FF0BC6525694200313A97 Editor steps in to save The Pioneer], ''The Times Of India'', 12 May 1998.</ref>
On 17 October 2010, ''The Pioneer'' launched its Hindi version of the newspaper from Lucknow <ref name=hindi/> and in May 2012, the paper inaugurated its Raipur bureau, beginning operations of its Chhattisgarh edition.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pioneer|first=The|title=Advani launches Pioneer Raipur|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/63333-advani-launches-pioneer-raipur.html|access-date=7 May 2012}}</ref>

{{As of|2013}} [[Chandan Mitra]] is the Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer.

===Editions ===
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* Delhi
* Lucknow
* Bhopal
*Bhubaneshwar
* Chandigarh
* Raipur
* Dehradun
* Ranchi
* Telangana

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Lucknow edition includes four other editions Varanasi, Kanpur, Allahabad and Lucknow itself.

==Columnists ==

* [[Chandan Mitra]]
* [[Kanchan Gupta]]
* [[Balbir Punj]]
* [[K G Suresh]]
* [[KPS Gill]]

===Cartoonists ===
* [[Sudhir Dar]] (former)
* [[Shekhar Gurera]]
* [[Irfan Hussain]] (former)

==References==
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