Anup Gupta

Managing Editor, Integration Hindustan Times Media Ltd.

Anup Gupta has spent four decades in the news industry in different capacities. He has been a part of many transformational journeys which include India’s first CMS, path-breaking productisation, and digital integration of news publications. Starting his career in 1982 as a trainee with India Today, he has designed and redesigned numerous magazines, newspapers, books, and websites.

Anup has been working with HT Media Ltd, a news corporation that publishes Hindustan Times, Hindustan, and Mint, as their Group Creative Director. It was here, in 2015-16, that he ran a newsroom rebuild programme Project Butterfly, which focussed on reorienting newsrooms to make them Digital First and developing workflows to enable news teams to deliver on the Digital First approach.

In the recent transformation he has conducted numerous orientation sessions with the media marketing team to help them understand the products and develop solutions for monetisation. In his current assignment, besides providing creative direction to the HT Media groups’ publishing initiatives, Anup is a part of the core team that is driving the newsroom integration at Hindustan Times and the digitisation of the group’s content and image archives.