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data-file-height="390" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Broadsheet" title="Broadsheet">Broadsheet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Sanchar Holdings<sup id="cite_ref-owner_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-owner-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span style="font-size:85%;">(57 %)</span> <br /><a href="/wiki/IDBI_Bank" title="IDBI Bank">IDBI Bank</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/ICICI_Bank" title="ICICI Bank">ICICI Bank</a> <br />Rainbow Productions<br />Starlink Group of Chennai</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data">CMYK Printech Ltd</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor-in-chief</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Chandan_Mitra" title="Chandan Mitra">Chandan Mitra</a> (1998-2021) • Shobori Ganguli (as of 23 December 2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1865 (estd 1864)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English and Hindi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,30,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/">www<wbr />.dailypioneer<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1285256#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Pioneer</b></i> is an English-language daily newspaper in India. It is published from multiple locations in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>. It is the second-oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation after <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_India" title="The Times of India">The Times of India</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Baumgardner1996_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baumgardner1996-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, <i>The Pioneer</i> launched its Hindi version in <a href="/wiki/Lucknow" title="Lucknow">Lucknow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hindi_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg/67px-Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg" decoding="async" width="67" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg/100px-Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg/133px-Alfred_Percy_Sinnett.002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="379" /></a><figcaption>Alfred Percy Sinnett (1874)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rudyard_Kipling_(portrait).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg/75px-Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg/113px-Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg/150px-Rudyard_Kipling_%28portrait%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1269" data-file-height="1689" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> (1865–1936)</figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Pioneer</i> was founded in <a href="/wiki/Allahabad" class="mw-redirect" title="Allahabad">Allahabad</a> in 1865, by George Allen, an Englishman who had great success in the tea business in north-east India in the previous decade.<sup id="cite_ref-dasgupta_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dasgupta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was brought out three times a week from 1865 to 1869 and daily thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-nla_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nla-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1866, a supplement, the <i>Pioneer Mail</i>, consisting of "48 quarto-size pages," mostly of advertisements, was added to the publication.<sup id="cite_ref-dasgupta_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dasgupta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1872, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Percy_Sinnett" title="Alfred Percy Sinnett">Alfred Sinnett</a> became the editor of the newspaper. Although he was later to be known for his interest in <a href="/wiki/Theosophy_(Blavatskian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theosophy (Blavatskian)">theosophy</a>, he oversaw the transformation of the newspaper to one of exercising great influence in British India.<sup id="cite_ref-dasgupta_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dasgupta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1874, the weekly <i>Pioneer Mail</i> became the <i>Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News</i> and began to also feature short stories and travel writings.<sup id="cite_ref-nla_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nla-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Author <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> (1865–1936), in his early 20s, worked at the newspaper office in Allahabad as an assistant editor from November 1887 to March 1889.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (November 2013)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> In July 1933, <i>The Pioneer</i> was sold to a syndicate<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and moved from Allahabad to <a href="/wiki/Lucknow" title="Lucknow">Lucknow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>, at which time the <i>Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News</i> ceased publication.<sup id="cite_ref-nla_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nla-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The newspaper remained a primarily Lucknow-based paper until 1990, when it was purchased by the Thapar Group, under <a href="/wiki/L._M._Thapar" title="L. M. Thapar">L. M. Thapar</a>, who made it a national newspaper, published from <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucknow" title="Lucknow">Lucknow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhubaneswar" title="Bhubaneswar">Bhubaneswar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kochi" title="Kochi">Kochi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhopal" title="Bhopal">Bhopal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chandigarh" title="Chandigarh">Chandigarh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dehradun" title="Dehradun">Dehradun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ranchi" title="Ranchi">Ranchi</a>. Thapar sold the paper to its editor <a href="/wiki/Chandan_Mitra" title="Chandan Mitra">Chandan Mitra</a> in 1998. At that time it had 484 employees. Mitra announced that he intended to seek other investors in due course rather than to remain the owner.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 17 October 2010, <i>The Pioneer</i> launched its Hindi version of the newspaper from Lucknow <sup id="cite_ref-hindi_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in May 2012, the paper inaugurated its Raipur bureau, beginning operations of its Chhattisgarh edition.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2013,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chandan_Mitra" title="Chandan Mitra">Chandan Mitra</a> was the Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer. He resigned as printer and publisher in June 2021, and died in September 2021. Also, the senior journalist Siddharth Mishra worked as an associate editor at The Pioneer.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editions">Editions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Columnists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chandan_Mitra" title="Chandan Mitra">Chandan Mitra</a> (former)</li> <li>Kanchan Gupta</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balbir_Punj" title="Balbir Punj">Balbir Punj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K_G_Suresh" class="mw-redirect" title="K G Suresh">K G Suresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KPS_Gill" class="mw-redirect" title="KPS Gill">KPS Gill</a></li> <li>Kalyani Shankar</li> <li>Gyaneshwar Dayal</li> <li>Ashok K Mehta</li> <li>Nilantha Ilangamuwa</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cartoonists">Cartoonists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cartoonists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sudhir_Dar" title="Sudhir Dar">Sudhir Dar</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shekhar_Gurera" title="Shekhar Gurera">Shekhar Gurera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irfan_Hussain" title="Irfan Hussain">Irfan Hussain</a> (former)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pioneer_(India)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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.id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSumantha_Rathore2011" class="citation news cs1">Sumantha Rathore (15 September 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.afaqs.com/news/media/31660_ownership-of-pioneer-group-reorganised">"Ownership of Pioneer Group reorganised"</a>. <i>afaqs.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 April</span> 2020</span>. <q>Sanchar Holdings, the new entity formed by Chandan Mitra, Durbar Ganguly and Amit Goel, will hold a 57 per cent stake in The Pioneer Group.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=afaqs.com&rft.atitle=Ownership+of+Pioneer+Group+reorganised&rft.date=2011-09-15&rft.au=Sumantha+Rathore&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.afaqs.com%2Fnews%2Fmedia%2F31660_ownership-of-pioneer-group-reorganised&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pioneer+%28India%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Baumgardner1996-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Baumgardner1996_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobert_Jackson_Baumgardner1996" class="citation book cs1">Robert Jackson Baumgardner (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=750-0hSmo8YC&pg=PR14"><i>South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users</i></a>. University of Illinois Press. pp. 14–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06493-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06493-7"><bdi>978-0-252-06493-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 December</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=South+Asian+English%3A+Structure%2C+Use%2C+and+Users&rft.pages=14-&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-252-06493-7&rft.au=Robert+Jackson+Baumgardner&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D750-0hSmo8YC%26pg%3DPR14&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pioneer+%28India%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hindi-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hindi_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hindi_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/290273/Pioneer-launches-Hindi-edition-in-Lucknow.html">Pioneer launches Hindi edition in Lucknow</a>, <i>The Pioneer</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dasgupta-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dasgupta_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dasgupta_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dasgupta_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Das Gupta, Uma. 1977. "The Indian Press 1870–1880: A Small World of Journalism", <i>Modern Asian Studies</i>, 11(2):213–235. pp. 233–234.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nla-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nla_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nla_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nla_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">National Library of Australia. 1994. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/gen/sanews.html">South Asian Newspapers in Australian Libraries: A Holdings List</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The proprietors of <i>The Pioneer</i> also owned a smaller newspaper, <i>The Civil and Military Gazette</i>, published from <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, at which Kipling had worked from 1883 to 1887, and which had served to launch his career as an author.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"When, at long last, the Pioneer—India’s greatest and most important paper which used to pay twenty-seven per cent to its shareholders—fell on evil days and, after being bedevilled and bewitched, was sold to a syndicate, and I received a notification beginning; ‘We think you may be interested to know that,’ etc., I felt curiously alone and unsponsored. But my first mistress and most true love, the little <i>Civil and Military Gazette</i>, weathered the storm." From: Kipling, Rudyard. 1937. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html"><i>Something of Myself</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080518005744/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html">Archived</a> 18 May 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Chapter III (<i>Seven Years' Hard</i>). Available (public domain) at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/">Words: University of Newcastle, Australia</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710193637/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/">Archived</a> 10 July 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/23D22B2F773FF0BC6525694200313A97">Editor steps in to save The Pioneer</a>, <i>The Times Of India</i>, 12 May 1998.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/63333-advani-launches-pioneer-raipur.html">"Advani launches Pioneer Raipur"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Advani+launches+Pioneer+Raipur&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailypioneer.com%2Fhome%2Fonline-channel%2F360-todays-newspaper%2F63333-advani-launches-pioneer-raipur.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pioneer+%28India%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/columnists/the-death-of-a-credible-media-with-a-backbone.html">"The death of a credible media with a backbone"</a>. <i>The Pioneer</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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