Madhyamam Daily
Front page of Madhyamam, 9 April 2009
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Ideal Publication Trust |
| Editor | O. Abdurahiman |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Political alignment | Pro- centre-Left |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Headquarters | Silver Hills, Kozhikode , Kerala, India. |
| Circulation | above 904,000 daily |
| Sister newspapers | Madhyamam Weekly |
| Website | MADHYAMAM.com |
Madhyamam (Malayalam: മാധ്യമം, meaning Medium) is a Malayalam newspaper publish from Kerala, India, since 1987. It is India's first international newspaper. It was founded in 1987 by the Ideal Publications Trust. It has 8 editions in India (7 in Kerala and one in Bangalore ) and its Persian Gulf edition Gulf Madhyamam has 9 in the Middle East.
According to Indian Readership Survey 2009 and IRS 2010 Q4, it's the fourth popular newspaper in Kerala with a readership of 904,000 readers.
The newspaper and its team of journalists have secured nearly ninety awards including Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award, Statesman Award for Rural Reporting, PUCL Journalism Award for Human Rights, ESR World Journalism Prize and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Developing Asia Journalism Award.
The newspaper exposed multiple stories of land encroachments, farming frauds, and malpractices in the name of assisted fertility. It also exposed an alleged kidney racket in tribal settlements in Idukki district of Kerala prompting a public outcry followed by an in-depth investigation by both the state government and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) into the incident.
Madhyamam is owned by the Ideal Publications Trust, most of whose members are affiliated with the Kerala unit of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. The trust claims as their aim "providing non-profit non-partisan and value-based journalistic service free from market pressures". The non-profit nature of the ownership, it says ensures the paper stays free of market compulsions of a business concern and be selective in the advertisements it publishes.
Madhyamam began publishing in 1987 at Silver Hills near Calicut. Veteran journalist, Kuldip Nayar inaugurated the newspaper.Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Malayalam writer, described it as "the birth of a silver star". The opening editorial on 1 June 1987 read:
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