MY NEW FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER

For the best news analysis; for the best Edit and Op-Ed Pages; for the best sports coverage; and, of course, for the best reading on Sundays (National Standard is the only daily in Bangalore that comes with a full-fledged free magazine on Sundays).

Thank you, Shekhar Gupta, editor in chief of The Indian Express Group, for launching National Standard in Bangalore on August 15 and making newspaper reading a pleasurable activity again.

• Also read: "Bravo, Shekhar Gupta!" and "Bravo, Viveck Goenka!"

Great news for media students, journalists, and newspaper readers in Bangalore:

On August 15, Indian Express launched National Standard in Bangalore:

Read all about it on sans serif, the blog published by Outlook editor Krishna Prasad: "A new paper in India’s most crowded market".

• “The new paper will be a quality paper for quality young audience, and Bangalore is that kind of a market, evident from our online market. Our largest base for online readers is in Bangalore.”
  
  ~ Shekhar Gupta on why Bangalore was chosen as the National Standard's launch-pad in the South (read Gupta's interview in Business Standard here)

• Also read: "Bravo, Shekhar Gupta!" and "Bravo, Viveck Goenka!"