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]
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]
References
^"About Us". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
