Online news venture from The Patrika Group - catch news launches its Hindi portal

Catch, the online news venture from The Patrika Group has within a span of 5 months  has surpassed many  pre established  media websites as it hits 3 million unique readers in Oct’15. With this feat Catch News has proved that there is a serious demand for credible journalism in the Digital News Media.space.

Through innovative techniques and a fresh approach, this venture has created waves in the what was already seen as a ‘saturated space’. In a short span of time, Catch News has already carved a niche space for itself. And has earned praise and acknowledgments from the discerning. Catch News has now launched their Hindi news portal that will focus on quality news content.

Mr. Siddharth Kothari - (Director)-" Patrika group started as a newspaper but it is today a credible news platform using various verticals, its credibility that is the common denominator and first priority for us".

This vision & approach for Catch News has worked practically, Catch News has hit 3.5 million unique visitors in just Five Months. That's really exciting because those are not just numbers: they are readers. And this is just the start of the journey. Catch News looks forward to cracking open the full potential of the internet. We'd like to come up with even newer ways of story-telling and become inseparable from a reader's need to understand what's happening in India -- if not the world.” says  Catch News Editor In Chief Shoma Chaudhury.

“This is just a start, we have an enthusiastic team that works day and night towards creating a benchmark in the industry. We have crossed 3.5 million UVs in a short span of five months. Nearly 35 percent of the readers are from outside India and interestingly 40 percent readers are female, giving us edge over other news websites who target and attract large unfiltered traffic” says Catch News COO Vinny Ganju.

He went on to add that Catch hindi.com which will focus on quality featured editorial with long reads, Video and audio content.  The idea behind Catch Hindi is to reach out to millions of readers in Hindi domain who have very few avenues to consume quality serious news content Thanks to sea of Hindi news websites and generic trivial content that gets published with only traffic numbers as objective leaving no room for real journalism in Online news space barring a few established names.  We are here to change the Hindi news landscape

Testimonies from the industry for CATCH NEWS (English) :

Tina Brown, former editor of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast :
“New news site in India is the best new thing I have seen in a long, long time .Bravo!”

Harold Evans, former editor of The Sunday Times:
"Rare to find something so original"

Raghav Bahl, Founder of The Quint:
Founder of Network 18 group and the new digital news venture The Quint, Raghav Bahl calls Catch News "Spectacular".

Ronnie Screwvala, Founder of UTV:
"Great start - loved the mix of high and low, fast and slow. Text with short paragraphs work well and I really like - the trailer for Arranged Marriages."

Catch is expected to expand its operations further. Exciting days surely lie ahead.