Madhyamam (Newspaper) Bio

Madhyamam is a Malayalam daily newspaper started in 1987. Madhyamam in Malayalam means media. Madhyamam has its core readership in the Malabar Muslim community. It has seven editions across the state of Kerala and a considerable readership. Apart from the daily edition, Madhyamam also publishes Madhyamam Weekly. An expatriate edition called Gulf Madhyamam is published from Bahrain, Doha, Dubai, Dammam and Kuwait. Madhyamam is owned by the Ideal Publications Trust, which claims as their aim providing non-profit non-partisan and value-based journalistic service free from market pressures. The newspaper is backed by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Kerala Halqa. Madhyamam began publishing in 1987 at Silver Hills near Calicut. Veteran journalist, Kuldip Nayar inaugurated the publishing. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Malayalam writer, said that it was the birth of a silver star. K C Abdullah, P K Balakrishnan and K A Kodungallur were among its editors at the early stage.