Its founder, K. N. Guruswamy, in search of a suitable location for a news publishing business,[4] purchased a bar and restaurant called Funnel's, that was owned by an Irish couple, in March 1948.

[5] K. N. Guruswamy (1901–1990) was the eldest son of a prominent businessman of Ballari (Bellary), who later shifted to Bangalore, and the family belonged to the Ediga community, which was traditionally involved in toddy tapping.

Nettakallappa and Prajavani editor Ramachandra Rao are credited with playing a pioneering role in founding the Press Club of Bangalore.

The English daily has got a new masthead in aqua blue, a colour to attract younger audience who need coaxing to pick up a newspaper.

[7][6] Quoting the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) for the year 2013, the Deccan Herald announced that it had "emerged as one of the top ten English dailies in the country".

[citation needed] Deccan Herald's Bengaluru edition is printed at a modern facility located in the Kumbalgodu Industrial Area since 1998.

[citation needed] The Deccan Herald was one of the early Indian newspapers to launch its own website, on 15 April 1996, and claims "14 million page views per month"[4] as of 2018.

[citation needed] A controversial short story was published in the Sunday magazine supplement of the Deccan Herald newspaper in December 1986.

[9] The story was about a physically and intellectually boy named Mohammad who died by suicide due to the travails of his family suffering from poverty.

It was a fictional story originally written by PKN Namboodri a decade earlier in Malayalam language and had nothing to do with the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

The newspaper's editor, who happened to be its publisher, was arrested for "fomenting enmity between two communities and writing articles in a manner prejudicial to public peace."