Sanjoy Narayan

Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan Times

Sanjoy Narayan has been Editor-in-Chief of Hindustan Times since 2008. At Hindustan Times, within a short span of a year, Narayan led what is the newspaper's first major attempt to relaunch and reposition itself, including a brand new design as well as a new editorial content strategy. After the relaunch, the newspaper has emerged as Delhi's foremost newspaper with the highest readership among English newspapers. During the period, the paper's five-year-old Mumbai edition emerged as the second largest English newspaper in that city. Narayan has also spearheaded Hindustan Times' new digital strategy - revamping its website and launching it on platforms such as the Kindle and the iPad.

Before joining Hindustan Times, Narayan was Editor of Business Today, India's largest business magazine. In his nearly 10-year stint with the magazine, Narayan is credited with turning around the publication and driving its journey to the top. Before Business Today, Narayan worked at BusinessWorld, Economic Times and The Telegraph where he began his career in 1982. At all of these publications, Narayan has worked variously as a writer, reporter and editor. He is credited with several pioneering achievements, including the launch of Brand Equity for Economic Times in the early 1990s and of creating and heading Economic Times' first corporate bureau around the same time. Later, he headed the Mumbai bureau of BusinessWorld for a number of years. While at Business Today, Narayan was also Editorial Director of several other projects and helped launch Indian editions of two new magazines--Men's Health and Golf Digest. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of India Today Group Digital, the India Today Group's multimedia initiative in the digital domain. Narayan has a degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He is married and has two daughters and is also passionate about contemporary music about which he writes a weekly column.