{{short description|Indian financial daily newspaper}} {{Multiple issues|{{Self-published|date=July 2022}}}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Mint | logo = frameless|180px | image = 225px|border | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | owners = HT Media | founder = Raju Narisetti | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1 February 2007 | language = English | ceased_publication = | headquarters = <nowiki>199 Street, Floor 18–20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 110001</nowiki> | circulation = 133,115 (certified) (Indian Readership Survey, 2013 – MRUC)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mint |url=http://www.htmedia.in/brandPage_hindustan.aspx?Page=Page-HTMedia-mint |publisher=HT Media |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-date=9 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809214742/http://www.htmedia.in/brandPage_hindustan.aspx?Page=Page-HTMedia-mint |url-status=dead}}</ref> | sister_newspapers = ''Hindustan Times''<br />''Hindustan'' | website = {{URL|https://www.livemint.com/}} }}
'''''Mint''''' is an Indian business and financial daily newspaper published by HT Media, a Delhi-based media group which is controlled by the K. K. Birla family. The family also publishes ''Hindustan Times''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/ht-media-launches-business-daily/story-I96yMvEYJBQ9FkGDhIQWnM.html |title=HT Media launches business daily |date=31 January 2007 |newspaper=Hindustan Times}}</ref> Mint was launched in 2007 and specializes in business and politics.<ref>{{cite news |title=Paradise Papers: Hindustan Times Group set up firm in Bermuda, showed Rs 7 cr loss |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/paradise-papers-shobhna-bhartia-hindustan-times-appleby-bermuda-firm-4925776/ |first=Sandeep |last=Singh |access-date=6 June 2018 |work=The Indian Express |date=7 November 2017}}</ref>
It publishes a single national edition distributed in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. Mint is not published on Sunday. Every Saturday, it prints its sister magazine, Mint Lounge. It was India's first newspaper to be published in the Berliner format.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blog: India’s Mint: Six years later, it’s India’s “best financial newspaper” |url=https://garciamedia.com/blog/pindias_mint_six_years_later_its_indias_best_financial_newspaper_p/ |access-date=11 January 2025 |website=García Media |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 April 2018 |title=HT Mint outsources Cornerstone to promote their brand in Tamilnadu and Bangalore |url=https://www.medianews4u.com/ht-mint-outsources-cornerstone-promote-brand-tamilnadu-bangalore/ |access-date=11 January 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref> The former editor of ''The Wall Street Journal India'', Raju Narisetti ran ''Mint'' from its founding in 2007 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/archive/mint-founding-editor-raju-narisetti-quits-managing-editor-sukumar-to-step-in-his-shoes/403356/ |title=Mint founding editor Raju Narisetti quits, managing editor Sukumar to step in his shoes |date=28 December 2008 |website=The Financial Express |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131200637/http://www.financialexpress.com/archive/mint-founding-editor-raju-narisetti-quits-managing-editor-sukumar-to-step-in-his-shoes/403356/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Narisetti was succeeded by Sukumar Ranganathan, who served as an editor until 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/09/22/mint-editor-sukumar-ranganathan-to-take-over-as-editor-in-chief-of-hindustan-times_a_23219661/ |title=Mint Editor Sukumar Ranganathan To Take Over As Editor-In-Chief Of Hindustan Times |date=22 September 2017 |website=huffingtonpost.in |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131200755/http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/09/22/mint-editor-sukumar-ranganathan-to-take-over-as-editor-in-chief-of-hindustan-times_a_23219661/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2014, ''Mint'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' ended their seven-year editorial partnership.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/273501/indias-mint-and-the-wall-street-journal-end-their-seven-year-partnership/ |title=India's Mint and The Wall Street Journal end their seven-year partnership |date=30 September 2014 |website=Quartz |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131081122/https://qz.com/273501/indias-mint-and-the-wall-street-journal-end-their-seven-year-partnership/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The companies now have a content syndication agreement as well as a subscriptions bundle. In 2017, former editor of ''Khaleej Times'' Vinay R. Kamat was appointed as Editor, replacing Sukumar Ranganathan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pressinstitute.in/News/vinay-kamat-is-new-editor-of-mint/ |title=Vinay Kamat is new editor of Mint |date=27 December 2017 |agency=Press Institute of India |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131200712/http://www.pressinstitute.in/News/vinay-kamat-is-new-editor-of-mint/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/shorts/vinay-kamat-sukumar-ranganathan-mint |title=Vinay Kamat to take over from Sukumar Ranganathan as new editor of Mint |date=21 December 2017 |website=newslaundry.com |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116151758/https://www.newslaundry.com/shorts/vinay-kamat-sukumar-ranganathan-mint |url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2020, Sruthijith Kurupichankandy, better known as SK, was appointed Editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/announcements-news/sruthijith-kk-appointed-editor-in-chief-of-mint-109069.html |title=Sruthijith KK appointed Editor in Chief of Mint |website=Exchange4media |date=16 November 2020}}</ref>
== History == ===Launch=== ''Mint'' began in collaboration with ''The Wall Street Journal'' on 1 February 2007, with the ''Journal''{{'}}s former deputy managing editor, Raju Narisetti as its founding editor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kar |first=Kalyan |title=HT Media to launch business daily; appoints Wall Street Journal's Raju Narisetti as Head of Editorial |url=http://www.exchange4media.com/peoplemovement/movement_fullstory.asp |date=16 April 2006 |website=Exchange4Media}}</ref>
===Relaunch=== In 2016, ''Mint'' changed from the Berliner format it popularised in India and became a broadsheet. ''Mint'' also publishes ''Mint Lounge'' as a Saturday cultural edition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us : Mint Lounge |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com/about-us |access-date=4 August 2021 |website=lifestyle.livemint.com |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116151807/https://lifestyle.livemint.com/about-us |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Livemint website== After struggling in the initial years, the Livemint website is now the second most read business news website in India, behind ''The Economic Times''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://the-ken.com/story/mint-beats-et/ |title=Beating ET: Unboxing Mint's defiance of online media |first=Shreedhar |last=Manek |date=10 February 2020 |access-date=10 February 2020 |publisher=The Ken |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116152557/https://the-ken.com/story/mint-beats-et/ |url-status=live}}</ref> After HT Media Limited acquired VCCircle from News Corp in 2020, the Livemint website also shares content with the VCCircle and TechCircle websites. The Deals, Tech and Startups page on the ''Mint'' newspaper routinely gets content from both VCCircle and TechCircle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 July 2020 |title=HT Media to acquire VCCircle and TechCircle |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ht-media-to-acquire-vccircle-and-techcircle/article32219721.ece |url-status=live |access-date=17 December 2021 |website=Business Line |language=en |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116152559/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ht-media-to-acquire-vccircle-and-techcircle/article32219721.ece}}</ref>
==Notable employees (past and present)== * Tamal Bandyopadhyay * Melissa Bell * Mitra Kalita * Priya Ramani * Anindita Ghose * Supriya Nair * Pallavi Singh * Samanth Subramanian * Sidin Vadukut, columnist,<ref>{{cite web |title=Cubiclenama |url=https://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/Sidin%20Vadukut |publisher=Mint |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116152607/https://www.livemint.com/authors/sidin%20vadukut |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==External links== <!-- per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, choose one official website only --> * {{official website|https://www.livemint.com/}} * [http://epaper.livemint.com/ ''Mint'' ePaper] (E-Paper – Digital Replica of the newspaper) * [http://www.ifra.net/wiki/interview-with-raju-narisetti-mint Interview with Raju Narisetti, ''Mint''] {{Newspapers in India}}
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