Samir Jain
Samir Jain | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 March 1954 New Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Vice-chairman of The Times Group |
| Parent(s) | Indu Jain Ashok Kumar Jain |
| Relatives | Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain |
Samir Jain (born 11 March 1954) is an Indian publisher and the current Vice-Chairman of media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.. Jain belongs to the Sahu Jain family which owns Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., the parent company of The Times of India and other large newspapers.[1]
Background[]
Samir Jain was born on the 11th March 1954 to Ashok Kumar and Indu Jain. He belongs to the important industrial family of Sahu Jain which owns the Times group. He earned his Bachelors in Arts from the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
Career[]
In 1975 Samir joined the family-owned Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. as a junior executive.[2] By 1982, Samir was vice-chairman and running the company as his father Ashok Jain, pursued by charges of fraud and suffering from a weak heart, departed to the United States for medical treatment.[2] During Samir's time, Times of India has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.[3][4][5][6]
References[]
- ^ Singh, Pragya (3 April 2017). "Samir Jain and the Times group". Outlook. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ a b Auletta. Page 55.
- ^ "TOI Online is world's No.1 newspaper websites". The Times of India. 12 July 2009. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
- ^ "The Hindu News Update Service". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ List of newspapers in the World by circulation
- ^ Top 10 English Dailies: Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 — Quarter 1 | Newswatch
Further reading[]
- Auletta, Ken: "Citizens Jain – Why India's Newspaper Industry is Thriving". The New Yorker, 8 October 2012, Pages 52 to 61.
- Subramanian, Samanth : "Supreme Being : How Samir Jain created the modern Indian Newspaper Industry", Caravan Magazine, 1 December 2012.
- Menon Malhan, Sangita P, "The TOI Story: How a Newspaper Changed the Rules of the Game" (2013) HarperCollins India
External links[]
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Businesspeople from Delhi
- Indian newspaper publishers (people)
- Indian mass media owners
- Indian billionaires
- The Times Group people
- 20th-century Indian businesspeople