Based in Moradabad, Moradabad News is an attempt to give voice to rural India. Sharik Malik, an editor of Moradabad News , says that he himself comes from a village and as the editor of the moradabad news, he got a chance to raise the problems of the rural area to a higher level. He thinks that the newspaper is a story of restructuring journalism in rural India, in which most people write problems affecting the common people like unemployment and lack of agricultural inputs. It is mixed with success stories, best practices in farming, and other rural businesses’ innovation stories.
However, Sharik believes that there is a lot in rural India, and through the editor of Moradabad News, he wants to change the conservative image of rural areas.
He seeks to provide rural market intelligence to urban businesses which will help them understand the changing trends and needs of rural India. Sharik also has plans to translate the newspaper into English. Also on the card is an audio newspaper, which will be a major step towards spreading the reach of the village and widening its reach. It will be a subscription-based model available on mobile phones which will make headlines mostly from rural India.
India’s only rural media platform moradabad news has completed 1 years of operations. After its launch on 15 January 2020, moradabad news (moradabadnews.in) has established itself as a true and authentic representative of rural India. It was started as a weekly newspaper. It has now claimed a strong presence in the digital world as well.
The rural reach of Moradabad news is growing.
Moradabad news Rural India was missing from the mainstream media’s radars for years. Even regional newspapers did not carry the news items relevant to the rural India. Moradabad news changed that by becoming the India’s first professionally run rural media platform. In the last one years, Moradabad news has not only been able give voice to the rural India, but has also won many prestigious media awards.