Deccan Herald
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The Printers |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Political allegiance | Left-wing |
| Headquarters | Bangalore |
| Circulation | 202,288 (January-June 2008) website = http://www.deccanherald.com/ |
The Deccan Herald is a popular English-language daily newspaper in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is published by the Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and has a number of editions in Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga.[citation needed]
The Deccan Herald was started in 1948. Its sister publications are the Prajavani daily newspaper, the weekly magazine Sudha, and the monthly magazine Mayura, all of which are published in Kannada. The head office of the Deccan Herald is on MG Road, Bangalore.
According to the Indian Readership Survey (Round One) 2008, The Deccan Herald has a readership of 500,000, which places it at No 10 on the list of most read English language newspapers in India. The ABC certified figures for the first half of 2008 put the daily paid circulation (number of bought copies as opposed to number of copies read) at 202,288 for Karnataka. For the same January-June 2008 period, The Deccan Herald had a circulation of 145,656 for the Bangalore city area, which makes it the No. 2 English language newspaper in the city, after the national top selling paper, The Times of India.
