The Tribune | |
Motto: | Voice of the People |
Type: | Daily newspaper[1] |
Format: | Broadsheet |
Owners: | Pudhari |
Language: | English |
Political: | Centre-left politics |
Headquarters: | 29-C, Chandigarh, India (previously Ambala) |
Publishing Country: | India |
Chiefeditor: | Jyoti Malhotra [2] |
Sister Newspapers: | Dainik Tribune Punjabi Tribune |
Oclc: | 36205400 |
Circulation: | 1826000+[3] |
Founder: | Dyal Singh Majithia |
Publisher: | Tribune Trust |
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore, Punjab (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five persons as trustees.[4] It is a major Indian newspaper with a worldwide circulation.[5] [6] [7] [8] In India, it is among the leading English daily for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.[9]
The present Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune is Jyoti Malhotra. The Tribune has two sister publications: Dainik Tribune (in Hindi) and Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi). Naresh Kaushal is the Editor of Dainik Tribune and Arvinder Kaur Johal is the Officiating Editor of the Punjabi Tribune. The online edition of The Tribune was launched in July 1998, and the online editions of the Punjabi Tribune and Dainik Tribune were launched on 16 August 2010.[10]
The Tribune Trust publishes all three newspapers. Narinder Nath Vohra is the current president of the Tribune Trust, which comprises S. S. Sodhi, S. S. Mehta, Gurbachan Jagat, and Paramjit Singh Patwalia as trustees.
The Tribune has had Kali Nath Roy, Prem Bhatia, Hari Jai Singh, H.K. Dua, and Raj Chengappa and Harish Khare, among others, as its editors-in-chief in the past.
Similar to most Indian newspapers, The Tribune receives most of its revenue from advertisements over subscriptions.[11]