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| {{short description|A morning daily Indian compact newspaper}}
| | #REDIRECT [[Mid-Day]] |
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| {{other uses|Midday (disambiguation)}}
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| {{Infobox newspaper
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| | name = mid-day
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| | logo = Mdlogo.gif
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| | logo_size = 200px
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| | image = MidDayCover.jpg
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| | type = [[Daily newspaper]]
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| | format = [[compact (newspaper)|Compact]]
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| | owners = Mid Day Infomedia Limited, a subsidiary of [[Jagran Prakashan Limited]]
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| | founder = Abdul Hamid Ansari (Inquilab, 1937) [[Khalid A. H. Ansari]](mid-day, 1979)
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| | publisher = Mid-Day Infomedia, Jagran Prakashan Limited
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| | MD & CEO = Vikas Joshi
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| | editor = Tinaz Nooshian
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| | photoeditor = Ashish Rane
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| | entertainment head = Mayank Shekhar <ref>https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/mayank-shekhar-joins-mid-day-as-entertainment-head-65607.html</ref>
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| | crime editor = Bhupen Patel <ref>http://www.hellomumbainews.com/current-news/book-release-of-mid-day-crime-editor-bhupen-patel-vishal-bharadwaj-attends/
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| https://www.amazon.in/Anatomy-Sting-Bhupen-Patel/dp/0143441760</ref>
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| | foundation = 1979
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| | political = [[Liberalism|Liberal]]
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| | language = English, [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] (as ''[[Gujaratimidday.com<ref>https://www.gujaratimidday.com/</ref>]]'' and [[Urdu]] (as ''[[The Inquilab]]'')
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| | headquarters = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
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| | sister newspapers = Inquilab,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inquilab.com/|title=Urdu News, Daily Urdu News, Online Urdu Local News, Local News from Mumbai – Inquilab News Channel|website=www.inquilab.com}}</ref> Gujarati Midday<ref>https://www.gujaratimidday.com/</ref>
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| | website = {{URL|www.mid-day.com}}
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| | free = {{url|https://epaper2.mid-day.com/}}
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| '''''Mid Day''''' (stylised as '''mid-day''') is a morning daily [[India]]n [[Compact (newspaper)|compact newspaper]] owned by [[Jagran Prakashan Limited]]. Editions in various languages were published in [[Mumbai]], [[Delhi]], [[Bangalore]] and [[Pune]]. In 2011 the Delhi and Bangalore editions were closed down. In 2014 Jagran Prakashan shut down the mid-day Pune edition as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=https:/hange4media.com/media-print-news/jagran-prakashan-slated-to-close-down-pune-edition-of-mid-day-58404.html|title=Jagran Prakashan slated to close down Pune edition of Mid-Day - Exchange4media|website=Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media}}</ref>
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| == Establishment ==
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| It was established in Mumbai in 1979 as a family-owned newspaper by Khalid Ansari. Later, his son, Tariq Ansari led the paper, before it was sold to Jagran Prakashan in 2010. A Sunday edition, ''Sunday Mid-Day'', began in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com|title=Mid-Day|website=www.mid-day.com|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref>
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| The Newspaper underwent an overhaul, both of its print editions and the website, in early 2014, creating several new sections in the daily newspaper, the Sunday edition and the website.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mid-Day official website|url=http://www.mid-day.com|website=www.mid-day.com|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref>
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| ==Relaunch of the newspaper and website in 2014==
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| Originally, the newspaper published two editions in Mumbai: an early-morning and a noon edition. Since April 2009, only the morning editions have been published and the company has dropped printing a noon newspaper, citing positioning issues. During the overhaul and relaunch of the newspaper and the website in 2014, the paper's slogan was also changed to ''Made in Mumbai''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mid-day relaunches in new avatar|url=http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2014/02/mid-day-relaunches-in-new-avatar|website=www.bestmediainfo.com|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hasan|first1=Abid|title=mid day ropes in dhiman chattopadhyay|url=http://www.exchange4media.mobi/story.aspx?news_id=49270§ion_id=23|access-date=24 May 2015|publisher=Exchange4Media|date=31 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080802/http://www.exchange4media.mobi/story.aspx?news_id=49270§ion_id=23|archive-date=24 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2014, the paper had an estimated readership base of 5,00,000 for MiD Day (English) in Mumbai and was featured in the list of top 10 Indian newspapers by readership in the 2013 Indian Readership Survey list.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sheth|first1=Darshan|title=IRS 2013 topline findings|url=http://www.slideshare.net/darshan_h_sheth/irs-2013-toplinefindings-30630677|website=www.slideshare.net|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> The new look Mid-Day has received both positive and negative reactions.<ref>{{cite web|title=New look mid-day scores high in survey|url=http://pressinstitute.in/new-look-mid-day-scores-high-in-survey|website=www.pressinstitute.in|access-date=22 May 2015}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mayank Shekhar joins Mid-day as Entertainment Head - Exchange4media|url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/mayank-shekhar-joins-mid-day-as-entertainment-head-65607.html|access-date=2020-07-28|website=Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media|language=en}}</ref> <ref>
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| http://www.hellomumbainews.com/current-news/book-release-of-mid-day-crime-editor-bhupen-patel-vishal-bharadwaj-attends/
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| https://www.amazon.in/Anatomy-Sting-Bhupen-Patel/dp/0143441760</ref>
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| In October 2019, the Sunday Mid-Day was relaunched with a new look. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afaqs.com/news/media/mid-days-new-promise-we-have-a-sunday-for-you|title=Mid-Day's new promise: 'We have a Sunday for you'|website=afaqs!|access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref>
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| ==Journalists jailed for reports on chief justice==
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| On 20 September 2007, four journalists of ''Mid Day'', including Resident Editor Vitusha Oberoi and City Editor MK Tayal, were sentenced to four months jail on [[contempt of court]] charges, because of a report they had filed on the ex-[[Chief Justice of India]], [[Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal|Y. K. Sabharwal]].<ref>
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| {{cite news|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/4-journos-get-jail-term-for-scandalising-excji/49078-3.html|title=4 journos get jail term for scandalising ex-CJI|date=21 September 2007|work=IBNLive|access-date=23 September 2007|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
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| Many in the legal community feel that in the [[2006 Delhi sealing drive]], Justice Sabharwal may have had a conflict of interest since his sons own a firm with relations to the Delhi real estate. Former Solicitor General KK Sud had called this behaviour "the height of indiscretion."<ref name=shock>
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| {{cite news
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| |title=Shock, anger at Sabharwal's mall-aa-mall
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| |publisher=Mid Day
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| |url=http://www.judicialreforms.org/files/Shock%20anger%20midday.pdf
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| |date=12 June 2007
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| |access-date=22 September 2007
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| |url-status=dead
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| |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228160258/http://www.judicialreforms.org/files/Shock%20anger%20midday.pdf
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| |archive-date=28 February 2008
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| }}</ref>
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| The High Court, however, sentenced the journalists without considering the veracity of the reports, and this led to considerable controversy.<ref name=legal>
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| {{cite news
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| | title = Legal fraternity condemns conviction of journos by HC
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| | work = Indiantelevision.com
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| | url = http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/sep/sep329.php
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| | date = 21 September 2007
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| }}</ref> Ex-[[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|law minister]] [[Shanti Bhushan]] stated that the [[Parliament of India|Parliament]] had in 2006 amended the Contempt of Courts Act to say that "if the allegations against a judge were found to be true, then they would not be considered contemptuous." In view of this, the judgment, he said, may be "only aimed at terrifying the media and an attempt to curb truthfulness."<ref>{{cite news|title=HC gives 4-month jail to Mid-Day journalists, grants bail|url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=505651|access-date=18 March 2014|newspaper=Outlook India magazine|date=21 Sep 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318160033/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=505651|archive-date=18 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| ==Awards and other achievements==
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| * Mid-day made it to the top 10 English Dailies at the IRS 2019 Q1<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Delhi|first1=BestMediaInfo Bureau|last2=April 30|last3=2019|title=IRS 2019 Q1: TOI, Mumbai Mirror, Mid Day and Mint record double-digit growth in AIR|url=https://bestmediainfo.com/2019/04/irs-2019-q1-toi-mumbai-mirror-mid-day-and-mint-record-double-digit-growth-in-air/|access-date=2020-07-28|website=www.bestmediaifo.com}}</ref>
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| * Asia Multimedia Publishing Media Awards 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.middayinfomedia.com/awards.htm|title=MiD DAY Infomedia}}</ref>
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| * INMA AWARDS 2008 at California - USA INMA AWARDS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inma.org/modules/awards|title=INMA Global Media Awards}}</ref>
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| * Amsterdam IFRA AWARDS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wan-ifra.org/|title=Welcome to WAN-IFRA - WAN-IFRA}}</ref>
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| == Senior staff ==
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| [[Jyotirmoy Dey]], the Special Investigations Editor of ''Mid Day'' was shot dead on 11 June 2011 in Mumbai by unknown assailants.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ahmed |first=Shoaib |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mumbai-scribe-shot-dead-by-2-unidentified-men/158563-3.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613121708/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mumbai-scribe-shot-dead-by-2-unidentified-men/158563-3.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 June 2011 |title=Mumbai journo shot dead by 4 unidentified men – India News |work=IBNLive |publisher=CNN |date=11 June 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| {{portal|Bangalore|India|Journalism}}
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| *[[List of newspapers in India]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| ==External links==
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| *{{Official website|www.mid-day.com}}
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| *{{Official website|www.middayinfomedia.com/|name=Corporate website}}
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| *{{Official website|http://epaper2.mid-day.com/|name=Epaper}}
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| *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160216184331/http://jplcorp.in/new/Default.aspx Jagran Group]
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| {{Newspapers in India}}
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| [[Category:English-language newspapers published in India]]
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| [[Category:Evening newspapers published in India]]
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| [[Category:Gujarati-language newspapers published in India]]
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| [[Category:Mass media in Pune]]
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| [[Category:Newspapers published in Bangalore]]
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| [[Category:Newspapers published in Delhi]]
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| [[Category:Newspapers published in Mumbai]]
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| [[Category:Publications established in 1979]]
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| [[Category:Urdu-language newspapers published in India]]
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| [[Category:1979 establishments in Maharashtra]]
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