South Central TNM turns 12 and here is how we got this far | South Central Episode 63
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Feb 21, 2026 Sukanya Shaji, gender editor at The News Minute who leads gender coverage, and Charan Teja, a reporter known for caste and ground reporting in Telangana and Andhra, reminisce about TNM’s growth. They discuss building a breaking-news desk, intentional accountability reporting, shifts in caste and gender language, video experiments, and the move to subscription-funded, South-focused journalism.
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Weeks Of Verification On IAS Investigation
- Paul spent weeks verifying an IAS corruption story by chasing bills, hotels and dummy companies before publishing.
- The team faced external pressure and legal scrutiny but ran the story because editors stood by the reporting.
Contextual Ground Reporting Exposes Power
- TNM's ground reporting focuses on social context: landholding, local power and detailed scene-setting.
- That granular contextualising exposes structural drivers behind violence and injustice.
Name Castes And Call It What It Is
- Use precise language when reporting caste or communal violence; name perpetrators and victims clearly.
- Standardise terminology so readers understand when incidents are caste-motivated rather than euphemistically described.