Mint (newspaper)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Shobana Bhartia |
| Founder(s) | Raju Narisetti |
| Publisher | Vivek Khanna |
| Editor | Sukumar Ranganathan |
| Managing editors | Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Anil Padmanabhan, Tamal Bandyopadhyay |
| News editor | Anil Penna |
| Founded | 1 February 2007 |
| Political alignment | fiscally conservative, socially liberal |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 2nd Floor, 18-20 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 |
| Sister newspapers |
Hindustan Times Hindustan Dainik |
| Website | www |
Mint is an Indian daily business newspaper published by HT Media Ltd, a Delhi-based media group which also publishes Hindustan Times. It mostly targets readers who are business executives and policy makers. It is India's first newspaper to be published in the Berliner format. Mint exclusively carries WSJ branded editorial content in its pages by virtue of the content sharing partnership between HT Media and Newscorp, which owns the Journal. The current Editor of the newspaper is Sukumar Ranganathan.
Mint was launched 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. Around eight months before the first edition was published, Narisetti went about hiring and assembling staffers for Mint. Several trial runs of the newspaper, with varying formats and names on its masthead were reportedly tried out before settling with the current ones. The launch team comprised some of India's leading business journalists as well as a handful of staffers from the Journal, whom Raju Narisetti had brought on board with the intention of bringing some Wall Street Journal style and flavour to Indian journalism. Informed observers saw it as a well calculated attack on the near monopoly of The Economic Times, published by The Times Group, HT Media's rival media conglomerate. Within two years of its launch, Mint was second only to The Economic Times and established itself as "India's fastest growing business daily."
Mint has now transcended the limits of the Berliner format it popularized in India and become a broadsheet, albeit one with the navigational aids, wraps, long-form narratives, and data stories that in many ways define what a newspaper should be in the digital era. Mint and Mint’s digital platform Livemint.com will complement each other. In effect, this isn’t just a cosmetic change in design and size but a fundamental rethink of a print product – and in terms of content too.
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