The News Minute turns 12 on February 21, and to commemorate, in this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna bring together the old and new team of TNM. The group goes over how TNM started – a one-room venture with an intern and one reporter, and traces how it grew into a steadfast newsroom with several journalists, focusing on caste, gender, power, and culture.
Dhanya starts the session by introducing the teammates – Executive Editor Sudipto Mondal and Associate Editor Nandini Chandrashekar, both joining from the Bengaluru studio. Joining in from various places are Anisha Sheth, TNM’s first ever employee and current chief of Karnataka bureau, Priyanka Thirumurthy, who earlier headed TNM’s Tamil Nadu bureau, Sanyukta Dharmadhikari who previously headed breaking news, Haritha John, TNM’s Kerala bureau chief, Charan Teja who was a reporter from Telangana and AP, Balakrishna, TNM’s head of features, Azeefa Fathima, current head of breaking news, Paul Ommen who used to report from AP, Sukanya Shaji who now oversees gender stories, and Yana, who takes care of marketing and communications.
