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Firstpost
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Parent company Network18 Group
StatusLive
Founded9 May 2011;13 years ago (2011-05-09)
Country of originIndia
Headquarters location Mumbai, India
Key peoplePalki Sharma Upadhyay
(managing editor)
Official website firstpost.com

Firstpost is an Indian news website owned by Network18 Group, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC TV18. [1] [2]

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The Network 18 group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the group received an investment from Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries through a rights issue of up to ₹ 27,000,000,000. [3]

History

Firstpost began in 2011 as an online news portal of Network18. [4] In May 2013, the news group was merged with the Indian edition of Forbes India whose four top editorial heads, including editor in chief Indrajit Gupta, were dismissed. [5] [6] The event led to a media furor. [7] Thereafter on 31 May 2013, Firstpost took over a satirical website Fakingnews.com for an undisclosed amount. [8] According to Scroll.in, "Network18, with its online outlet FirstPost, famously lost its primetime anchors in 2014 because of a diktat against criticising Modi." [9]

In 2015, The Caravan reported on censorship in Firstpost over criticism of political leaders such as Arun Jaitley. [10] In January 2019, a weekly English-language print edition of Firstpost began, [4] [11] and then ended in June 2019, with publication of Firstpost continuing online. [12] As of April 2020, Jaideep Giridhar is the executive editor of Firstpost in Mumbai, while Sanjay Singh is the deputy executive editor. [13] On 26 January 2023, the prime-time show Vantage was launched, hosted by managing editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay, formerly of WION. [14]

Fact-checkers have found the Firstpost to have posted incorrect information on multiple occasions. In 2023, it misreported photo of a grave with iron grille to be from Pakistan when it was from Hyderabad, India. [2] In 2023, it falsely reported that Atiq Ahmed's vote had ‘Saved' the UPA Govt in 2008. [15] [1]

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  2. 1 2 "Media misreport: Viral photo of grave with iron grille is from Hyderabad, not Pakistan". Alt News. 30 April 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Reliance enters media by opening purse strings for Network18". The Indian Express . 4 January 2012. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
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