Journalist turned Entrepreneur who founded The News Minute, Dhanya Rajendran

Dhanya Rajendran is the founder of online news startup, The News Minute, which has developed into a particular voice on territorial inclusion in the English news media space notwithstanding being in a profoundly cutthroat market.

She settled on commerce in precollege and thought she’d ultimately seek after a profession that included connecting with individuals. She hadn’t yet settled on reporting as a calling then, at that point. It was just when she attended a university that she fostered an interest in legislative issues and even became undergrads’ association president. She is an alumnus of the Asian College of Journalism which she joined in 2002 for a post-graduate diploma in journalism.
She began her profession by working for Kerala’s initial 24-hour news direct India Vision in 2003. In 2004, she moved to New Indian Express in Chennai. She thusly moved to work for Times Now as a columnist in 2005 and proceeded to turn into its dresser head of South India. Alongside her better half Vignesh Vellore and Chitra Subramaniam, she then, at that point, happened to establish The News Minute, an advanced news site focussing on the news inclusion of the southern provinces of India in 2014.

Her startup centers around news from India’s five southern states and claims to clock around 6.5 million extraordinary guests a month. The site likewise gives accumulated news from different media houses. The startup has figured out how to develop the site’s traffic to more than 1 million month-to-month novel guests. TNM covers a scope of subjects from legislative issues to current undertakings to human interest stories. TNM additionally has a content-sharing agreement with The Quint, the news site of Quintillion.

Rajendran has amassed a few honors in her profession. She was named as probably India’s best business visionary in Fortune magazine’s 40 under 40 lists in 2018. Rajendran was additionally granted as Namma Bengaluru media person of the year in 2017.