30 MAY CELEBRATE AS HINDI JOURNALISM DAY

Hindi Journalism Day refers to media in Hindi language and its dialects, across the Hindi belt in India, and elsewhere with Hindi-speaking Indian diaspora. First Hindi-language newspaper published in India, Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), started on 30 May 1826.This day is celebrated as the "Hindi Journalism Day", or " Hindi Patrakarita Diwas " as it marked the beginning to journalism in Hindi language.

HISTORY India has a long history of printing. India's first printing press was set up as early as in 1674 in Mumbai (Bombay).

History:

•     The first Hindi newspaper Oodhund Martand((The Rising Sun), a weekly was published in Calcutta on May 30, 1826 “in the interest of Hindustanis. its editor Yugal Kishore Shukla (Jooghol Kishore Sookool in some documents) faced many difficulties in running it. He was not allowed postal concession and had to close down the paper in a year.
• He made an attempt to start another paper in 1850 called Samyadani Martand but it also failed.
• The second Hindi newspaper Bangadoot was published in 1829 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarika Prasad Thakore with Nilratan Haldar as its editor. Besides Hindi, it was also published in English, Bengali and Persian.

·        Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper of India (also known as the Hicky's Bengal Gazette) started in January 1780, and the first Hindi daily, Samachar Sudha Varshan, started in 1854 - three years before the first freedom struggle of India in 1857.

Currently India publishes about 1,000 Hindi Dailies that have a total circulation of about 80 million copies. English, the second language in terms of number of daily newspapers, has about 250 dailies with a circulation of about 40 million copies. The prominent Hindi newspapers are Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala, Navbharat Times, Hindustan Dainik, Rajasthan Patrika, Nai Dunia etc.

Prominent Hindi television news channels include Aaj Tak, ABP News, Zee News, and NDTV India. The most popular Hindi news websites are primarily the online versions of the Hindi newspapers and news channels. Webdunia.com, one of the largest web portals, is also a venture of the newspaper Nai Dunia. However, Madadgar has created a distinct identity of its own. Incidentally, Nai Dunia claims to be the first Hindi newspaper on the Internet.