4 months ago
1
The Hindu Group hosted “The Newspaper of the Future”, a pupil contention astatine IIT Saarang 2026, inviting participants to reimagine however newspapers tin prosecute young readers successful a rapidly evolving media landscape.
The contention focused connected designing a future-ready paper acquisition for the 18–24 property group, portion retaining the halfway principles of journalism specified arsenic credibility, nationalist interest, and liable reporting.
Students were encouraged to suggest print, integer oregon hybrid concepts that utilized exertion meaningfully to heighten storytelling and scholar engagement.
A full of 100 students crossed 30 teams participated successful the preliminary round. Based connected thought submissions and ocular mock-ups, 10 teams were shortlisted for the last round.
The teams presented their concepts unrecorded astatine IIT Saarang 2026 earlier a assemblage comprising Sridhar Arnala, Chief Sales and Distribution Officer, The Hindu Group, and Nagaraj N., Vice President – Data and Analytics and Designated AI Officer, The Hindu Group.
“We designed a Gen Z–focused paper that prioritises ocular storytelling implicit long-form reading,” said Vir Jain of the winning squad Reporters, on with Shambhuraj Salunkhe and Rajvardhan Waghmare. “Our conception features comic-style ocular narratives to explicate quality flow, a ‘follow-a-case’ format for in-depth communicative tracking, and an AI newsman that reads and summarises quality without compromising journalistic values.”
The Hindu is the media spouse for IIT Saarang 2026.
