Riding The Winds Of Change

He entered The Indian Express at a crucial inflection point not only for his paper but for print media in general. News had to meet the demand of digitalisation resulting in falling hard copy sales. Steering the growth of the group’s digital business as its Executive Director, Anant Goenka talks about negotiating the transition and the future.

- Joseph Rozario

A media behemoth that has enlightened readers with news and views for almost a century, The Indian Express Group has stood on the pillars of truthfulness, fearlessness and independent journalism, as enshrined by its venerable founder late Ramnath Goenka. Having grown from a single edition newspaper in the '30s to a conglomerate with newspapers in multiple languages, a number of trade magazines and a vast digital presence to boot, the group, headquartered in Mumbai, continues to bring news, knowledge and information backed by comprehensive analyses and fearless reporting.

The newspaper, founded by Ramnath Goenka, has won the Vienna-based International Press Institute’s India Award for outstanding journalism in the public interest twice. It has won every major national journalism award and several international awards, including the Kurt Shorck Award for International Journalism, Natali Prize for Journalism and the International Federation of Journalists—Journalism for Tolerance Prize.

Ninety and going strong

The Indian Express Group is India’s second largest and amongst the world’s largest digital news media groups, reaching well over 200 million unique users a month, in seven languages including the web-only ieBangla, ie Malayalam, ieTamil and ieGujrati.com. It produces a suite of B2B and B2C event IPs such as Ramnath Goenka Journalism Awards, Express Adda, and Financial Express Fintech Summit. It publishes well-known dailies like The Indian Express, The Financial Express, Jansatta (Hindi daily),