Celebrating Sunday

We have inherited a fundamental belief from our founder Ram Nath Goenka: there is no contradiction between good journalism and the market. Good journalism is not about boring political punditry. Even the lighter part of our business 8212; features and colour sections 8212; is to be respected rather than be dismissed with pre-paid PR copy.

Within 52 scoopy weeks, The Sunday Express and its young team have rescued your most valuable reading day from cliches and self-serving plugs. The stories we broke shook the establishment. They had an immediate impact even in these cynical times.

The defining newspaper story of the year, perhaps the decade, was the petrol pump scam. The land allotment scam, the Great Bank Robbery, the Rape of the Rock, the list is long. It is just as as well that they impacted the front pages of our rival papers which routinely followed them up or Parliament, but also the market-place.

We deserve to celebrate this, along with our increasing number of readers and advertisers. This anniversary issue is dedicated to them. A very special section has some of our finest reporters, the very cutting edge of the Express brand of journalism, spilling the beans on how they scooped the year8217;s hottest stories. We believe our 52nd is our best so far. Even better is still to come.