The Chennai Emailer is a local journalism newsletter delivered to your email every Saturday and Sunday.
💌 Bringing you local stories of residents, entrepreneurs & businesses who inspire, connect, and uplift Chennai.
🫱🏻🫲🏼We showcase residents who tackle everyday challenges and deliver ingenious solutions.
❤️Our aim is to keep residents of this exciting city stay updated with useful local information and positive stories of our community heroes.
By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get:
🗓️Every Saturday, a crisper ‘News of the Week’ edition. It includes 📰essential news articles, 🌦️Weather reports, 🚌transport bulletins and official updates sourced straight from government websites/social media accounts. 🌐🎫 Also includes recommendations to best online and offline events taking place across the city.
Check out previous editions: Here and here.
👫🏽On Sundays, you will get an original human-interest story. 👥Featured here are profiles of Chennai citizens who are offering solutions to common problems and running businesses or initiatives that make a difference.
A few features published so far:
🎥How this Chennai-based writer went on to create a show for SonyLIV
✍🏽The Newsletter Nerd Show's Akshaya Chandramouli on writing, personal branding & more...
🏄🏽How surfing became a favourite sport for fisherfolks in Kovalam
🏰How Madras Inherited is inspiring residents to care about heritage conservation
Core values
👥Community: We love Chennai and we aim to shine a light on our fellow residents who are creating a positive impact through their business or social work that solves common problems. We strongly stand by the values of our Constitution.
🕊️Empathy: We value empathy as it’s a great way to understand new perspective and respect differences. Its the cultural uniqueness of every resident that makes Chennai a fabulous place to live.
🖖🏼Kindness: It is possible to make real world change via social media if we act with kindness (and decency). We aim to foster courteous and direct communications with the people we profile and with our readers.
💰Sustainable journalism: The Chennai Emailer eventually aims to earn its revenue through readers' subscription and sponsorships. Our weekly news compilation will be always be available for free. We also welcome supporters for one-time donations.
📰Editorial policy: If we ever make any factual mistakes in our reporting, we will make sure to address them as early as possible and get it right. We are open to ideas and suggestions from readers (Email: thechennaiemailer@gmail.com). The Chennai Emailer reserves full right to decline publishing any profiles/reportage if it doesn't satisfy our editorial guidelines.
💡Inspiration: There are several fantastic new-age local journalism start-ups across the world that are creating massive impact. We find inspiration from platforms like The Mylapore Times, Citizen Matters, CityCast, Axios, The Charlotte Ledger and The Mill to name a few.
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Hello there!
Thanks for visiting The Chennai Emailer. It is run by me—Mohammed Rayaan😊✌🏽. I am a journalist/writer based in Chennai, India.
I won a scholarship from the Facebook Journalism Project to pursue the 100-days online Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (City University of New York).❤️
As part of the course, I started this newsletter as my passion project to bring out the best of local journalism from this city that I call home.
A bit more about me:
I’m currently pursuing the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. I aim to spend my time here learning from fellow cohorts and upskill myself in my journey to build a sustainable local journalism platform and a career in media.
I’ve worked as a Sub-Editor for The Hindu BusinessLine. Previously, I have worked as an entertainment and features writer for DT Next, an English daily newspaper. Earlier, I was also associated with News Today, an English evening daily. 📰
My bylines have appeared on LiveWire, Better India, and on The Opinioc, a publication in the Medium. You can also find my writings on ScrollStack. I have worked with start-ups and entrepreneurs and have created content for their businesses. 👨🏽💻
When I am not a journalist, I write stories of my own, read a lot of books or magazines and I watch TV. Visit my personal site www.rayaanwriter.com if you’d like to connect with me. For queries related to this newsletter, you can reach me at thechennaiemailer@gmail.com | Cheers! 😊❤️
