<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray, who edited the two newspapers till his death Nov 17, is now &#39;founder-editor&#39; of the dailies.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Till Monday, Bal Thackeray&#39;s name continued to appear on the front-page below the masthead as editor of both the newspapers.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Indicating his desire to keep a low profile, the name of Uddhav, the son of Bal Thackeray, appears only in the printline of the last pages of the two papers.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="Uddhav Thackeray" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/dec/uddhav-thackeray.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 330px;" /><br />   <strong>Uddhav Thackeray</strong></p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Marathi broadsheet morninger Saamana was founded Jan 23, 1988, as a party mouthpiece to convey Thackeray&#39;s views to the Marathi masses.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Hindi eveninger tabloid Dopahar Ka Saamana was launched Feb 23, 1993, to woo north Indians settled in Maharashtra and take Thackeray&#39;s views to the national capital, a year before the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party combine captured power in Maharashtra.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Over the years, Thackeray mastered the art of using the two newspapers columns -- through acidic edits, rare signed edicts and an occasional personalised message to party activists -- sparing none, be they relatives, friends or foes.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   For the first time in their history, the newspapers sported full black front pages the day after Thackeray&#39;s death (Nov 18) and the day after his public cremation (Nov 19).</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Little wonder, Saamna was usually the only Marathi newspaper placed on the office desks of all incumbent Maharashtra chief ministers.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   While Uddhav will be the new editor, the papers&#39; routine affairs will continue to be managed by trusted executive editors Sanjay Raut (Saamana) and Prem Shukla (Dopahar Ka Saamana) as in the past.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Published by veteran party leader Subhash Desai, the newspapers are run by the Prabodhankar Trust and printed in its own printing units in Vashi in Navi Mumbai.</div>  

A day after getting all powers to manage Shiv Sena, its executive president Uddhav Thackeray Tuesday donned a new mantle -- that of the editor of party mouthpieces Saamana and Dopahar Ka Saamana

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