Newspapers and their Founders
| Newspaper/Periodical | Started / Edited by |
|---|---|
| Bengal Gazette (Jan 1780) (India’s first newspaper) | J.A.Hickey |
| India Gazette (Nov 1780) | B. Messink and Peter Reed |
| Madras Courier (1785) (First newspaper of Madras) | Richard Johnson |
| Mirat-ul-Akbar (1821) (1st Persian Newspaper) | Raja Rammohan Roy |
| Sambad Kaumudi (1821) | Raja Rammohan Roy |
| Bombay Samachar (1822) | Fardunjee Marzban |
| Jam-e-Jahan Numa (1822) (1st Urdu newspaper of India) | Harihar Datta |
| Udant Martand (1826) (1st Hindi Weekly) | Jugal Kishore Shukla |
| Samachar Sudhavarshan (1854) (1st Hindi Daily) | Shyam Sundar Sen |
| The Pioneer (1865) | George Allen |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika (1868) | Sisir Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
| The Statesman (1875) | Robert Knight |
| Anand Bazar Patrika (1876) | Tushar Kanti and Sisir Ghosh |
| The Hindu (1878) | M. Veeraraghavacharyar & 5 others |
| Maharatta, Kesari (1881) | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| The Tribune (1881) | Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia |
| Voice of India (1882) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Malayala Manorama (1890) | Kandthil Varghese Mappilai |
| Prabudha Bharat (1896) | Swami Vivekanand |
| Indian Opinion (1904)(in South Africa) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bande Mataram (1905) | Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Jugantar Patrika (1906) | Bhupendranath Datta, Abhinash Bhattacharya and Barinder Kumar Ghosh |
| Bombay Chronicle (1910) | Ferozshah Mehta |
| Hitavada (1911) | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| New India (1914) and The Commonweal | Annie Besant |
| Navjeevan (1919), Young India (1919), Harijan (1933) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Independent (1919) | Motilal Nehru |
| The Leader (1919) | Madan Mohan Malviya |
| Mooknayak (1920) | BR Ambedkar |
| Mathrubhoomi (1923) | KP Kesava Menon |
| Hindustan Times (1924) | Sundar Singh Lyallpuri |
| Free Press Journal (1928) | Swaminathan Sadanand |
| The Indian Express (1932) | Ramnath Goenka |
| National Herald (1938) | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Arya Gazette | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Esays in Indian Economics | MG Ranade |
| Samachar Chandrika | Bhabani Charan Bandopadhyay |
| Swadeshabhimani | Vakkom Moulavi |
| Din Mitra | Mukundrao Patil |
| Bengalee | Surendranath Banerjee |
| The Socialist | S.A. Dange |
| Navayug | Muzaffar Ahmed |
| Inquilab | Ghulam Hussain |
| Free Hindusthan | Taraknath Das |