The Free Press Journal

The founder editor was Swaminathan Sadanand.{{cite book|author1=Arnold P. Kaminsky|author2=Roger D. Long|title=India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA340|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37462-3|page=340}} It was founded in 1928 to support Free Press of India, a news agency that dispatched "nationalist" news to its subscribers.{{cite book|author=Asha Kasbekar|title=Pop culture India!: media, arts, and lifestyle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sv7Uk0UcdM8C&pg=PA111|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-636-7|page=111}} In the colonial context, Colaco describes it as "an independent newspaper supporting nationalist causes". She quotes Lakshmi{{who|date=January 2016}} as saying that "The nationalist press marched along with the freedom fighters".{{cite book|author1=Bridgette Phoenicia Colaco|author2=Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Mass Communication and Media Arts|title=What is the news o Narada? Newspeople in a new India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UofhnvC312MC&pg=PA46|year=2006|isbn=978-0-549-22400-6|page=46}} It played a significant role in mobilising sympathetic public opinion during the independence movement.{{cite book|author=Centre for Studies in Civilizations (Delhi, India)|title=Social sciences: communication, anthropology and sociology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00fvNp8y7cgC&pg=PA218|year=2010|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-81-317-1883-4|page=218}}

Among its founders was Stalin Srinivasan who founded Manikkodi in 1932. Bal Thackeray worked as a cartoonist for the newspaper until being removed from the job. Thackeray then founded Marmik.{{cite book|author=Ravinder Kaur|title=Religion, violence, and political mobilisation in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEMwF7pAm-cC&pg=PA88|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-7619-3431-8|page=88}} According to Atkins he was removed "after a political dispute over Thackeray's attacks on southern Indian immigration into Bombay"{{cite book|author=Stephen E. Atkins|title=Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofmo0000atki|url-access=registration|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32485-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofmo0000atki/page/317 317]–}} Notable cartoonist R. K. Laxman joined The Free Press Journal as a twenty-year-old. He was Thackeray's colleague. Three years into the job, he was asked by his proprietor not to make fun at communists, Laxman left and joined The Times of India.{{cite book|author=Rukun Advani|title=Civil lines: new writing from India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEqN0TD00QoC&pg=PA110|year=1997|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7530-013-2|page=110}}

It supported the practice rights of Jewish doctors who had taken refuge in Mumbai fleeing persecution in Germany, in the 1930s. Indian doctors opposed their right to practice claiming that Germany did not have reciprocal arrangements for Indian doctors. The Free Press Journal argued that this was against the "ancient Indian traditions of affording shelter from persecution".{{cite book|author=Joan G. Roland|title=The Jewish communities of India: identity in a colonial era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHJccZ92IecC&pg=PA179|year=1998|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-0-7658-0439-6|page=179}}

• Seema Mustafa: Seema Mustafa is a Resident Editor for The Sunday Guardian. She writes a column "Frankly Speaking Seema Mustafa".
• Janardan Thakur: veteran political columnist was editor of the newspaper in the late 1990s. {{cite web | last=Roy | first=Biswajit | title=Shri Mahajan Condoles The Death Of Shri Janardhan Thakur| website= Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting| date=31 December 2002 |quote= a highly respected journalist whose contribution to the growth of journalism is commendable. | url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/releases98/lyr99/l0799/r120799.html | access-date=23 January 2025}}{{cite web | title= Remembering Janardan Thakur | website=Rediff.com | date=13 July 1999 | url=https://m.rediff.com/news/1999/jul/13thakur.htm | access-date=23 January 2025}}

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