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“Unmasking the killer behind the Cobra: How Kerala cops cracked the case.”
“Tiger T-23 captured alive in the Nilgiris after 21-day hunt.”
These were some headlines on The News Minute (TNM) on a typical morning this October. The news site founded by Dhanya Rajendran, Chitra Subramaniam and Vignesh Vellore remains resolutely focused on India’s five southern states. “We don’t touch on other states. Our niche is here,” says Vellore, CEO, TNM.
This, along with its on-ground journalism, has meant that six years later, “TNM is very close to profitability,” says Raghav Bahl, co-founder Quint Media and an investor in the site. Its flagship,
