Bangalore Mirror

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Bangalore Mirror
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TypeDaily newspaper
Format Compact
Owner(s) Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
PublisherBennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
EditorSeena Menon
Founded2002
LanguageEnglish
Relaunched2007
Headquarters Bangalore
Website www.bangaloremirror.com

Bangalore Mirror is an English-language daily published by The Times Group in Bangalore, India, as a compact newspaper. It is a deputed newspaper and is the second-largest circulating English daily in the city. In 2020, as part of its COVID-19 downsizing drive, The Times Group merged other editions of Mirror into a weekly affair, except Bangalore Mirror. Bangalore Mirror continues to be the leading daily catering to the tabloid/compact newspaper segment in the young metropolis, focusing largely on original stories that matter to Bengaluru, and its young urban population.

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References

  1. 1 2 Mid-Day's Sunder Kondur joins Vijay Times; to overse Bangalore Mirror launch
  2. Press Institute of India (2007). Vidura. Vol. 44. C. Sarkar.