The New Indian Express

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Express Publications (Madurai) Limited
Editor	Manoj Kumar Sonthalia
Founded	1934 in Chennai,Bifurcated from Indian Express and Renamed 1999
Political allegiance	n/a
Headquarters	Chennai/Madurai, India
Circulation	301,601 copies (source: ABC January-June, 2007).

Website: [1] www.newindpress.com

The New Indian Express is a newspaper with its head office based in Chennai, India. It started life in 1932 as the Indian Express under the ownership of Chennai-based Veradharajulu Naidu. In 1999, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, Goenka's family split the group into two separate companies. The northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained and renamed Indian Express into The Indian Express title ,whilst the southern editions became The New Indian Express. Although the two newspapers occasionally share articles they are now very much different corporate entities.

The New Indian Express is now published from all major cities in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, including Chennai (Madras), Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kochi. It also brings out an edition in the state of Orissa. In total, it publishes from 14 centres in the south.It also publishes city supplement known as City Express which covers the local news of each city. Its various supplements, which appear on a weekly or fortnightly basis, include pull-outs on careers, youth, women and education.

The New Indian Express has a net paid circulation of 301,601 copies (source: ABC July-December, 2007). The NIE achieves its biggest penetration (paid sales per head of population) in the state of Kerala. It also claims to be the first Indian newspaper to give insurance benefits to all its readers^{[citation needed]} In terms of the area it circulates in, the New Indian Express covers approximately 24% of the total national population. The New Sunday Express (the Sunday edition of the NIE) is arguably the flagship publication, with magazine supplements incorporating both national and international themes and sections on arts, leisure, travel, lifestyle, sport, new age living, books, self-development, entertainment and development issues.

The NIE is now famous for articles by T. J. S. George and S. Gurumurthy and is managed by Manoj Kumar Sonthalia, from Chennai. Journalist and editorial advisor of the New Indian Express T. J. S. George, won the prestigious C. H. Mohammad Koya Journalism Award in 2005 for his outstanding contribution to the field.

In October 2007, the New Indian Express launched a 40 page Friday magazine supplement (almost total colour) called "Indulge". During late 2007/early 2008, there was a big shake out of editorial staff, with many old hands leaving to make way for new staff. In April 2008 the newspaper also underwent a major, drastic and exceptionally modern layout and design makeover and had set aside a large budget to embark on a huge advertising campaign. These activities were in response to previously sluggish circulation and increased competition, not least from the Deccan Chronicle, which entered the Chennai market in 2005, and the the Times of India, which entered the market in April 2008.

The New Indian Express Group of Companies also publishes Dinamani in Tamil and Kannada Prabha in Kannada and these magazines: Cinema Express (Tamil), Malayalam Vaarika (Malayalam) and Tamilan Express (Tamil). The Group runs the following websites: