Daijiworld Media

Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd
Type of business Private limited media company
Type of site
 web portal
Available in English
Founded 14 January 2001
Headquarters Mangalore, India
Key people Walter Nandalike (Managing Director)
Industry e-paper, online news
Products News & Information
Employees 250
Website www.daijiworld.com
Alexa rank Positive decrease 19,792 (April 2014)[1]
Registration optional
Launched 14 January 2001

Daijiworld Media is an Indian private limited media company, headquartered in Mangalore, that provides news services, including the web portal, www.daijiworld.com.[2] It was founded by Walter Nandalike, as www.daijidubai.com on 14 January 2001,[3] primarily with the objective of relaying news from the Coastal Konkan region of India. It was later renamed as www.daijiworld.com, and established as a media company in 2007.

Daijiworld has currently a daily viewership of around 450,000 visitors from around 180 countries, of which 40% of them are Non-resident Indian (NRI) Mangaloreans. The portal contains a variety of columns ranging from daily news, events, special columns, cookery, and other information covering Mangalore, Coastal Karnataka, Goa, Mumbai, and Middle-Eastern countries, apart from national news from authorized agencies. Daijiworld runs Daijiworld 24x7 TV channel, which was launched on 9 May as test transmission, telecast from 16 June 2014 across coastal Karnataka through cable network and set-up boxes. The TV channel is also available on internet (www.daijiworld247.com) and also in Android and IOS app formats. It also publishes an English weekly named Daijiworld Weekly.[4][5][6]

History

Daijiworld Media was a result of an April Fools' Day prank by Walter Nandalike, the Editor-in-chief of the portal. He had migrated to the Gulf for employment, with no knowledge of computers. Having learnt about computers, he sent his first E-mail to his friends on 1 April 2000 saying that he was hosting a site on the Internet, which was meant to be a joke for April Fools' Day. His friends took him seriously and started inquiring about the site. Surprised by the levels of interest, Walter started thinking seriously about the project. He learnt computers thoroughly, and eight months later on 14 January 2001, launched www.daijidubai.com, primarily with the objective of hosting information and news pertaining to Konkani language and society. The portal is now known as www.daijiworld.com[7] Daiji in Konkani means "relation", and the portal was started by Walter and a group of writers of the Daiji Dubai Writers Forum with a view to promote and spread awareness of culture and tradition.[8][9]

In May 2005, the portal had been ranked 30,714, among the estimated 60 million websites in India by ranking.com, a premier web monitoring agency.[3] In March 2007, it established itself as a media company under the banner of "Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd". In order to cater to the increasing demand for news from India by the NRIs, an exclusive office was opened in Kankanady, Mangalore with 40 correspondents spread across the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. On 18 July 2008, Daijiworld took a step further and inaugurated its Udupi office.[4] In May 2009, Daijiworld launched an English weekly tabloid named Daijiworld Weekly, promoted under the banner of a new company namely "Daijiworld Publications Pvt Ltd".

In May 2014, Daijiworld moved to its own corporate office located at Bondel, Mangalore.[10] Daijiworld Television was also launched at the same time. On 10 September 2015, Daijiworld launched its fourth venture, Daijiworld Audio-Visual Studio. In May 2016, Daijiworld Udupi franchise moved to new premises, in addition to setting up of its television studio.

References

  1. ↑ "Daijiworld.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Bishop lauds contribution of Internet to information age". The Hindu. 8 January 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Mangalore–based portal among popular websites". The Hindu. 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  4. 1 2 "About us". Daijiworld Media. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  5. ↑ Internet TV for non-resident Mangaloreans from The Hindu Business Line
  6. ↑ Internet TV from The Hindu
  7. ↑ M. Raghuram (2006-01-14). "Weaving web links". The Hindu. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
  8. ↑ "Keeping track of events back home made easy". The Hindu. 2004-03-28. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  9. ↑ Pinto, Stanly (2004-03-28). "Uniting Mangloreans on the Net". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  10. ↑ Mangalore: Daijiworld corporate office inaugurated, Colaco launches Daijiworld24x7 TV channel
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