Boria Majumdar at Sydney
As we step into 2025, it is time to look back at the year we had at Revsportz in 2024 and also the way ahead. We completed 3 years on December 1, 2024. From negotiating a personal ban, which could have impacted the company’s fortunes to breaking new ground with coverage, Revsportz has come a long way.
Here in Sydney, we have 9 of us reporting on the Border Gavaskar Trophy, doing English, Hindi and Bengali coverage simultaneously. Our website is now recognised as one of the go-to platforms for quality sports writing. We will soon foray into documentary work and the March 2025 conclave will be India’s biggest sports congregation.
Our core values, however, are still the same. It will always remain a platform for journalists and by journalists. Men and women who have been a part of the profession and aspire to be a part, are the cornerstone of Revsportz. And we report what we see. No masquerading as cheerleaders. Call it as things are. ROI yes, but passion for multi-sport is as important. Giving young people opportunities will always be a mission and we will do so with purpose going forward.
In 2024, we grew exponentially. We are now a team of 45 and we plan to be 50 by the first half of this year. Our new state of the art studio, which will help us showcase multilingual content 24/7, is almost ready. It will be inaugurated in March and will become fully operational in the second half of the year.
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Yesterday, at the airport, on the way to Sydney, we had an interesting experience. A group of fans, who we have never seen, walked up to us and said “We are from Dallas, Dubai and Singapore. We met up to come to Australia to watch the Border Gavaskar Trophy. We were in Paris for the Olympics. We have to tell you Revsportz is such a breath of fresh air in sports journalism.”
We then took a few photos and they mentioned to me a number of our reports they had seen from Paris and from Australia. One even said he wants to invest!
That’s what it is all about. Catering to a serious constituency of sports fans who want to engage with proper content. Discuss, debate, disagree. Engage and make a difference.
Each reporter, we have all agreed, will go beyond their sport of choice and follow and cover a new sport in 2025. It is not just about cricket and will never be. Covering the Para World Championships, for example, is of huge importance. It will tell us where we stand as a society in terms of becoming more sensitive towards men and women with disabilities.
We are all living the Revsportz dream – one which aims to enrich Indian sport and in doing so make the fraternity better and more resilient. We take a lot of pride in backing each other up and learn in the process. Even the junior most member in the team is as much a contributor in our edit meets. That’s the story- make Revsportz a platform we are all proud to be a part of. And make a difference to sport. That’s real legacy.
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