The News Minute Explained

The News Minute
Founder:	Vignesh Vellore
Country:	India

The News Minute is an Indian digital news platform based in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded by Vignesh Vellore who is also the current CEO in 2014. Apart from Karnataka, it also has bureaus in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.^[1]

History

In a December 2015 interview with Sadhana Chathurvedula of Mint, Vignesh Vellore mentioned that the website has currently hired 12 people to work in it. The News Minute had secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Raghav Bahl's company. They raised second round of undisclosed amount in 2019. It plans to use those funds to hire more reporters and editors as well as expand its coverage.^[2] Vignesh Vellore stated that The News Minute aims to make use of User interface (UI) "so as to keep the audience more engaged with the content we publish."^[3]

Notable people

• Dhanya Rajendran Editor-in-chief and co-founder of The News Minute. She was previously with Times Now and The New Indian Express.^[4]
• Chitra Subramaniam Former editor for The Hindu, known for her investigations on the Bofors scandal.^[5] She is also an Editorial Adviser for Republic TV.^[6]

Awards

• Azeefa Fathima, senior reporter at The News Minute, won the Project SIREN Award 2024 for her article titled 'More teens are dying by suicide every year. How do we protect them?'^{[7] [8]}
• Sukanya Shaji, who is an Associate Editor, has won the Laadli award in the ‘web e-magazine category’ for her story ‘Conversion therapy’ still continues in India, despite a ban.^{[9] [10]} She also won the South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2024, in the English category, for the same story.
• Azeefa Fathima, Balakrisha Ganesan and Prajwal Bhat won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2022 in the Civic Journalism category for their five-part series on exposing manual scavenging in India.^[11]
• Prajwal Bhat won the Ramnath Goenka award in the Political Reporting category for his series on the 2022 hijab agitations in Karnataka.
• Haritha John, chief of Kerala bureau, won the Young Changemaker Award by the Azadi Project for her coverage in the field of displacement and migration.^[12] She also won the Laadli jury appreciation award in the English web feature category for her story 'Making lifestyle changes to manage PCOS isn't affordable for many women'.^{[13] [14]}
• Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute won the RedInk Journalist of the Year award in 2022, for leading her team in exposing the tampering of voter data in Karnataka ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.^[15]
• Geetika Mantri, Senior Editor of The News Minute won Project SIREN Award for journalists for her October 2020 article titled 'How the coverage of Sushant Singh Rajput's death was a disservice to mental health reportage'.^{[16] [17]}
• Anna Isaac has won the first prize from the International Committee of the Red Cross, New Delhi and Press Institute of India, Chennai, for her story, "Who gets to live? COVID-19 is causing moral distress among India's doctors",^[18] published on 14 May 2021.^[19]

See Also

• IPD Tamil 24×7
• Imphal Free Press
• Indian Ruminations

Notes and References

1. News: About Us . The News Minute . 20 May 2016 . 27 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160527145412/http://www.thenewsminute.com/node/35 . live .
2. News: The News Minute raises angel funding from Quintillion Media . . 18 December 2015 . 20 May 2016 . Sadhana . Chathurvedula . 31 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160531171107/http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/5hunech9v9EwUy56pQChpO/The-News-Minute-raises-angel-funding-from-Quintillion-Media.html . live .
3. News: The News Minute secures angel funding from Quintillion Media . . 18 December 2015 . 20 May 2016 . Vikas . S. N. . 30 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160630023106/http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/the-news-minute-secures-angel-funding-from-quintillion-media/50229601 . live .
4. Web site: Smt. Dhanya Rajendran – Namma Bengaluru Awards . 2024-10-19 . en-US.
5. News: Chitra Subramaniam and Bofors: The myth of the lone crusader . . 26 April 2012 . 20 May 2016 . Chaudhry . Lakshmi . 27 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161027220202/http://www.firstpost.com/india/chitra-subramaniam-and-bofors-the-myth-of-the-lone-crusader-289498.html . live .
6. Web site: Chitra Subramaniam joins Republic TV . . 31 January 2017 . 13 December 2017 . 14 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171214071701/http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2017/jan/31/chitra-subramaniam-joins-republic-tv/caf33c2863e342ae1365b40bafeefbff . live .
7. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2024-09-21 . TNM’s Azeefa Fathima wins Project SIREN Award 2024 for her story on teenage suicides . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
8. Web site: Fathima,Jahnavi . Azeefa . 2023-09-21 . More teens are dying by suicide every year. How do we protect them? . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
9. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2024-09-04 . Journalists Sukanya Shaji and Nithya Pandian win Laadli Award 2024 . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
10. Web site: Isaac . Sukanya Shaji,Anna . 2023-08-01 . ‘Conversion therapy’ still continues in India, despite a ban . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
11. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2024-03-19 . TNM’s Prajwal Bhat, Azeefa Fathima, Balakrishna win Ramnath Goenka awards . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
12. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2023-11-04 . TNM’s Haritha John wins Young Changemaker Award for reports on migrant workers . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
13. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2024-09-04 . Journalists Sukanya Shaji and Nithya Pandian win Laadli Award 2024 . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
14. Web site: Isaac . Haritha John,Sukanya Shaji,Anna . 2023-10-24 . Making lifestyle changes to manage PCOS isn’t affordable for many women . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
15. Web site: Staff . T. N. M. . 2023-12-02 . TNM Editor-in-Chief Dhanya Rajendran awarded RedInk Journalist of the Year 2022 . 2024-10-19 . The News Minute . en.
16. News: Mantri. Geetika. 16 Oct 2020. How the coverage of Sushant Singh's death was a disservice to mental health reportage. The News Minute. 28 Jan 2022.
17. News: 10 Sep 2021. TNM’s Geetika Mantri wins Project SIREN Award for sensitive suicide reportage. The News Minute. 28 Jan 2022. 28 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128194121/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/tnm-s-geetika-mantri-wins-project-siren-award-sensitive-suicide-reportage-155120. live.
18. News: Isaac. Anna. 14 May 2021. Who gets to live? COVID-19 is causing moral distress among India’s doctors. The News Minute. 28 Jan 2022. 28 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128194119/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/who-gets-live-covid-19-causing-moral-distress-among-india-s-healthcare-workers-148811. live.
19. News: 19 Nov 2021. TNM's Anna Isaac wins PII-ICRC Awards for story on doctors' dilemma during COVID-19. The News Minute. 28 Jan 2022. 28 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128194120/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/tnm-s-anna-isaac-wins-pii-icrc-awards-story-doctors-dilemma-during-covid-19-157825. live.