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ThePrint

Indian center-right to centrist (pro-market, liberal-leaning on social issues)

Owned byOwned by Printline Media Private Limited, in which founder and editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta holds about 99% according to media-ownership trackers. Early investors hold small stakes, including Ratan Tata, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Rajiv Mody and Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
FundingLaunched with private investment from prominent Indian business figures. The amount was not disclosed, and the Crunchbase and Inc42 profiles list no other funding rounds. It also earns money from advertising, sponsored and branded content, and reader contributions (it runs a 'Be a ThePrint Member' program). Its financials are not fully public.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

ThePrint was launched in August 2017 by Shekhar Gupta, a longtime editor of The Indian Express and former editor-in-chief of India Today. It focuses on politics, policy, defense, foreign affairs and economics, and publishes opinion and video alongside news. Its corporate owner is Printline Media Private Limited. Gupta holds about 99%, and a group of well-known Indian business figures holds the rest. Those investors include Ratan Tata, Narayana Murthy and Nandan Nilekani, and they have not been reported to hold control or editorial roles. The outlet is known for its defense and security reporting, explanatory pieces and Gupta's 'Cut the Clutter' and 'Off the Cuff' video series. Critics from the right have accused it of being anti-government, and critics from the left have accused it of being too close to the establishment or business interests. It has published a wide range of opinion columnists. Its Trump-era coverage has centered on India-U.S. trade and tariff developments. Examples are the 2026 reduction of the U.S. tariff on India from 25% to 18%, the Supreme Court ruling against reciprocal tariffs, and the Russia-sanctions law. The tone is largely news-driven, and it does not take a consistently supportive or hostile line toward the U.S. administration. This profile rests on limited recent sampling, so the stance reading is tentative.

Sources

  1. ThePrint - Wikipedia
  2. Shekhar Gupta's 'ThePrint' bags funding from Tata, Narayana Murthy (Deccan Chronicle)
  3. Shekhar Gupta's The Print Raises Funding From Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Others (Inc42)
  4. The Print - Media Ownership Monitor India
  5. ThePrint: India-US trade deal to be signed after Trump administration decides new global 'tariff architecture'

Profile compiled 2026-10-16; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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