Gujarati news audiences moved to their phones years ago. A district-level story now reaches more people through a 30-second vertical video than through any bulletin — and the creators serving that demand are mostly one person with a phone, not a channel with a studio.
The hard part was never the reporting. It was production: an anchor, a camera, lighting, and an editor for every single story, every single day. That is the part you can remove entirely.
Get sourcing right before anything else
News is the one format where being fast and wrong ends a channel. Your credibility is the entire asset, and a single fabricated or misattributed story destroys it permanently.
Before you publish, hold every story to the same bar: two independent sources, or one named official source you can point to. If you cannot say where a claim came from, it does not go in the video.
- Attribute clearly in the script — say who reported it, not just what happened.
- Separate confirmed fact from what is still being investigated. Say so out loud.
- Never present rumour, forwarded WhatsApp messages, or unverified clips as fact.
- If you get something wrong, post a correction as its own video. Audiences forgive errors; they do not forgive silence.
Pick a beat you can actually cover daily
The most common mistake is trying to cover all of Gujarat. National headlines are already saturated by outlets with newsrooms, and you cannot out-report them.
Go narrower than feels comfortable. One district, one city, or one subject — Rajkot civic news, Surat business, Saurashtra farming, Gujarat government job notifications. A narrow beat is easier to fill every day, easier to be genuinely first on, and far easier for a viewer to describe to a friend.
A news script formula that works in 30 seconds
News writing for vertical video is not bulletin writing. You have one line to earn the next twenty seconds, and no visual of a studio to lend authority. Structure every story the same way so writing becomes mechanical:
- Line 1 — the headline as a consequence, not an event. Not what happened, but what it means for the viewer.
- Line 2 — the essential fact: who, where, when.
- Line 3 — the source, stated plainly.
- Line 4 — what happens next, or what the viewer should do.
Turn the script into a video in minutes
Paste your four lines in. Each one gets a natural Gujarati voice-over, a matching visual, and burnt-in ગુજરાતી captions — which matter more for news than any other format, because most people watch on mute while commuting or at work.
Everything comes out vertical 9:16, so the same clip goes to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and WhatsApp status without re-editing.
Speed is your only real advantage
You will not beat a newsroom on depth or access. You can beat it on speed and on caring about a place nobody else covers. If a story breaks at 9am and your video is up by 9:30, you own that story locally for the rest of the day.
This is why production time matters so much. A workflow that takes an hour means you publish tomorrow, which is worthless. A workflow that takes ten minutes means you publish while it is still news.
A realistic daily workflow
- Morning: scan your sources and pick two stories that actually affect your district.
- Write four lines per story — headline, fact, source, what next.
- Generate both videos, check the captions read correctly, and post.
- Pin the more important story to the top of your profile.
- Total time: about 15 minutes for two stories.