BIOGRAPHY

Aroon Purie is the founding chairman and editor-in-chief of the India Today Group. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and a qualified Chartered Accountant from the UK, Purie has served as chairman and member on the board of many prestigious institutions both in India and abroad and is chairman of FIPP.

Purie has been instrumental in changing the face of Journalism in India and is the recipient of numerous awards for his contribution to journalism in both print and television. These include The B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (1988), The G.K. Reddy Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (1993-94), The Apsara Award from the Film and Television Producers Guild of India in 2006, The ITA Television Icon 2007 Award from the Indian Television Academy and recently the News Television’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 from Indian Television Dot Com in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Indian news television. Purie was also awarded the Padma Bhushan - amongst India's highest civilian honours – from the president of India in 2001.


COMPANY PROFILE

Founded in 1975, India Today, its flagship newsweekly, published in English and four regional languages, sells nearly a million copies. Other group publications include: Business Today, Reader’s Digest, Golf Digest, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar India, India Today Travel Plus, Prevention, Good Housekeeping, Design Today, Spice, Men’s Health, Money Today and Scientific American.
 
On air, The India Today Group has four 24-hour news channels: Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Tez and Dilli Aaj Tak and a radio station, MEOW 104.8 FM. The Group has the country’s largest commercial printing plant in India, Thomson Press India and publishes commercial directories through a joint venture and partners HarperCollins Worldwide. It has a music division, Music Today, and a book club, India Today Book Club.  It also has a joint venture with ANL in the UK, publishers of The Daily Mail, and has successfully launched the English newspaper Mail Today in Delhi. The Group also has a joint venture with The Axel Springer Group of Germany and has recently launched Autobild in India.