The Economic Times

Name	The Economic Times
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Caption	The 9 July 2021 front page of
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owners	The Times Group
Publisher	Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Editor	Bodhisatva Ganguli
Headquarters	Times House, DN Road, Mumbai, India
Publishing Country	India
Sister Newspapers	The Times of India Navbharat Times Maharashtra Times Ei Samay Sangbadpatra Vijaya Karnataka
Language	English
Circulation	269,882 daily
Circulation Date	2023
Issn	0013-0389
Oclc	61311680
Website	(BFSI vertical)

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper. Published by The Times Group, The Economic Times began publication in 1961 and it is sold in all major cities in India. As of 2012, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after The Wall Street Journal, with a daily readership of over 800,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the newspaper's circulation averaged 269,882 copies during the latter half of 2022. It is published simultaneously from 19 cities: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Pune, Patna, Ranchi, Indore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Kochi, and Goa. Its main content is based on the Indian economy, international finance, share prices, prices of commodities as well as other matters related to finance. The founding editor of the paper when it was launched in 1961 was P. S. Hariharan. The current editor of The Economic Times is Bodhisattva Ganguli.

Other ventures

In June 2009, The Economic Times launched a television channel called ET Now. In 2018, the house of The Economic Times launched a member-only platform called ET Prime. It claims to be a business storytelling platform. ET Prime's current editor (2022) is Shishir Prasad.

The Economic Times has a portfolio management tool called ET Portfolio. The Economic Times also launched ETHRWorld and ETBrandEquity. Author-Publicist Aatish Jaisinghani has also been featured on Economic Times for his take on the shift in audience dynamics and the impact on brand remunerations with National brand campaignsm as well as thriving in female dominated industries on World PR Day.

In 2017, The Economic Times launched the ET Hindi website for the business news in Hindi. In 2022, The Economic Times launched its website in the seven other Indian languages, creating: ET Gujarati; ET Marathi; ET Bengali; ET Tamil; ET Malayalam; ET Telugu; and ET Kannada.

Editors

1960s and 1970s: P. S. Hariharan (1961–1964), D. K. Rangnekar (1964–1979)
1980s: Hannan Ezekiel, Manu Shroff (1985–1990)
Early to mid 1990s: Jaideep Bose, T. N. Ninan, Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
2004: Rajrishi Singhal and Rahul Joshi
2010 to 2015: Rahul Joshi
2015 to date: Bodhisatva Ganguli

Credibility and AI-generated content

Some articles on The Economic Times appear to be AI-generated. For example, an article published without a byline in January 2025 talks about recent research by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Center indicating that the weight of water held by the Three Gorges Dam has measurably lengthened Earth's day. However, the information appears to come from a NASA press release from 2005 with quotes attributed to a scientist who left Goddard in 2006.

The fact-checking site Media Bias/Fact Check rates the Economic Times as a "questionable source" based on numerous failed fact checks and fake news.

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