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The Straight Line
Straight Line News is a multi-lingual digital media organisation based in Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of the prominent Digital News portals of Jammu and also a news magazine. The organisation pioneered the promotion of indigenous languages of Jammu including but not restricted to Dogri, Pahari and Gojjri along with ensuring new coverage in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English for better understanding by the masses. Straight Line focuses mainly on developmental news and hyper-local issues.

Straight Line is headquartered in Jammu region. They also have a separate section dedicated to the Kashmiri Pandit community that faced exodus in the 1990s due to conflict in Kashmir and later settled in Jammu. Straight Line also became the first Digital Media platform to interview Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu.

Owners of Straight Line News
Straight Line News is fully owned by Straight Line News Private Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013) limited by shares. Young Journalist Miss. Pallavi Sareen and Journalist Mr. Syed Junaid Hashmi are the two founding Directors of Company. Director of Straight Line News Private Limited. Miss. Pallavi Sareen is also the owner, printer, publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Straight Line, a news magazine. Mr. Syed Junaid Hashmi is the Managing Editor of the News Magazine. Besides Magazine, Straight Line News has vibrant YouTube Channel, a Facebook page, Instagram account and Twitter handle.

At 21, Miss. Pallavi Sareen became the youngest Editor-in-Chief of a Jammu-based socio-political digital news organization and was selected in the First Cohort of “Niche Media Entrepreneurs” at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism on Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship. She has held various positions in media organizations in Jammu and Kashmir.

= Funding Info = Straight Line News Private Limited is a private limited company with Miss. Pallavi Sareen and Syed Junaid Hashmi as two Directors. From its inception till December 2019, the running expenses for Straight Line News Private Limited have been covered entirely by its founders and by donations from individual readers, friends and well-wishers.

A limited amount of advertisement money (from YouTube and Facebook, Instagram, Website and Mobile Application also comes in, but as a media venture, Straight Line is largely dependent on donations from readers and philanthropically minded individuals (who, by law, must be Indian citizens) for the bulk of its revenue.