| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner | Mid Day Infomedia Limited, a subsidiary of Jagran Prakashan Limited |
| Editor | Sachin Kalbag |
| Sports editor | Clayton Murzello |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Language | English, Gujarati and Urdu (as The Inquilab) |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
| Official website | www.mid-day.com |
Mid Day (stylised as MiD DAY) is an afternoon daily Indian compact newspaper. Editions in various languages are published in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Pune (launched on 18 August 2008).
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It was established in Mumbai in 1979 as a family-owned newspaper. A Sunday edition, Sunday MiD DAY, began in 1981.
The newspaper is owned by Mid Day Infomedia Limited, a subsidiary of Jagran Prakashan Limited, a publishing house listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.
It publishes newspapers in three languages – English, Gujarati and an Urdu newspaper, The Inquilab. The Inquilab, the first paper of the group in Urdu, was born in the fervour of idealistic nationalism in 1938.
The Mumbai newspaper publishes two editions: an early-morning and a noon edition. However, since April 2009, only noon editions have been published and the company has dropped printing a morning newspaper, citing positioning issues. Its slogan is "Make Work Fun".
On September 20, 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,[1] because of a report they had filed on the ex-Chief Justice of India, Y. K. Sabharwal. Whether the charges in the report were true or not was not considered in arriving at the decision.
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."[2]
The High Court, however, sentenced the journalists without considering the veracity of the reports, and this led to considerable controversy.[3] Ex-law minister Shanti Bhushan stated that the 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."[3]
Jyotirmoy Dey, the Special Investigations Editor of Mid Day was shot dead on 11 June 2011 in Mumbai by unknown assailants.[4]
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Sachin Kalbag | Executive Editor[5] |
| Jyotirmoy Dey | Special Investigations Editor |
| Clayton Murzello | Sports Editor |
| Tinaz Nooshian | Editor, Sunday Mid-Day |
| Vinod Kumar Menon | City Editor, Mid-Day Mumbai |
| Daipayan Halder | Resident Editor, Delhi |
| Amit Kumar | Chief of Bureau, Delhi |
| Surender Sharma | Chief Reporter, Delhi |
| Aditya Anand | City Editor, Bangalore |
| Nuhzat Aziz | City Editor, Pune |
| Lindsay Pereira[6] | Editor, Online |