Typography Society of India. Online Lecture Series

Talk No:7. 

Speaker: Anup Gupta, Managing Editor, Integrations with HT Media Ltd. Delhi.

Date: 26th September 2020, Saturday.

Time: 5:00pm

Topic: Redesign of Hindustan Times - First Voice. Last Word.

Recording of the talk is available at:



About the speaker:

Sri. Anup Gupta is a graduate of Applied Art from College of Art, Delhi. With more than three decades of work experience in the publishing industry, Anup Gupta had the privilege of working with India Today, Economic Times, Business Today, Business Standard, Business World, India Today Group Online, Times of India, Mint and Hindustan Times. He has been instrumental in designing and redesigning some of these publications where he has also built and managed the design competency. 

Anup is presently the Managing Editor, Integrations with HT Media Ltd and is a member of a core group that is spearheading a major change at the Hindustan Times by implementing an integrated newsroom. Leading the editorial track in the project; Anup, along with the other members of the core group, is rethinking the way a news organisation should and will operate tomorrow. He has recently spearheaded the rethink and redesign of Hindustan Times. 

He is married to Peali Dutta Gupta, a design consultant and his soulmate for 34 years. They have a 12 year old daughter Pia and live in Delhi.


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