Malabar News: Kozhikode's Malayalam Portal for Kerala's Northern Districts
Malabar News is a Malayalam online news portal based in Kozhikode, Kerala, publishing at malabarnews.com for the Malabar region — the northern districts of Kerala — and for Malayali readers well beyond them. It describes itself as the region's premium general news portal, and on its own About page it sets out a wide brief: up-to-date regional, national and international updates across current affairs, entertainment, sports, business, technology, health and wellness, fashion and lifestyle, automobiles and real estate, together with a dedicated stream for the Malayali diaspora, which it calls NRI World – Pravasi Lokam. Its stated mission is equally direct: to become and remain the most dependable and trustworthy regional news portal of Kerala, by providing neutral, unbiased news and stories to its audience.
What distinguishes Malabar News from many regional portals is how much of itself it puts on the record. Ownership and funding, the names and shareholdings of its owners, its editor-in-chief, its registered and working addresses, its editorial team by name and role, and a suite of published policies on corrections, fact-checking and ethics are all laid out on the site. A profile can therefore be unusually concrete about who runs this Kozhikode newsroom, what it believes, and how it is organised.
Ownership: Consultfull eMedia and Business Private Limited
Malabar News states, on its ownership and funding page, that the portal — together with Malabar Live, its YouTube-based online media channel — is fully owned and managed by Consultfull eMedia and Business Private Limited. The legal name given is Consultfull eMedia & Business Pvt. Ltd., with Company Identification Number U74999KL2020PTC064997, registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in India, and a registered address at Dharmic Arcade, on Kadalundi Road at Mannur, Kozhikode, Kerala 673328. The company's incorporation number places its registration in Kerala in 2020, giving the portal a formal corporate home behind its news operation.
The ownership structure is disclosed in percentages, which is rarer still. Rubeena Eswaramangalam holds 90 percent of the shares of Consultfull eMedia & Business Pvt Ltd, and Velayudhan Suresh Kumar holds 10 percent, with their Director Identification Numbers published alongside their names. The page adds that operational capital for Malabar News is provided entirely by the company, while the publication also receives revenue through other sources, and that it engages with advertisers and public relations firms for display advertising and other promotional content on the portal. For readers and researchers, this page alone answers the questions — who owns it, who funds it, how does it earn — that are often unanswerable for digital outlets of this size.
Leadership and the Editorial Team
At the head of the editorial operation stands Esahaque Eswaramangalam, named as Editor-in-Chief on the ownership page and as Founder and Chief Editor in the About page's management team; the contact pages also list him as Editor and Publisher. Alongside him, the management team names Suresh Kumar as Director and Chief Financial Officer, and Vinod T B as Director. The terms and conditions page confirms that the editorial team, led by its chief editor, holds sole responsibility for the general news, special features and editorial content published on the portal.
Below that leadership, the site names its working team in a way that reveals the newsroom's shape. Its editorial team page lists official reporters — Abina Mathew, Banu Isahak, Drishya Damodaran, Midhuna TK, Parvathi V Nair and Vijina Vijayan among them — a trainee reporter, Joice Jose, and freelance reporters including Alavudheen PM and Muhammed Shabeer. The About page adds desk and specialist roles: Vijina NK as Desk Editor, Jamal Panampad as Senior Photojournalist, Nidhin Illikkambath as an official reporter, and Siva Prasad as Special Correspondent for film. A blend of full-time reporters, trainees, guest and freelance writers, as the site itself puts it, is a realistic structure for a regional portal — and the prominent place of women reporters in the bylines is a visible feature of this newsroom's public face.
Two Kozhikode Addresses and a Kochi Desk
Malabar News works from more than one address, and its contact page separates them by function. Its identity office is at Neeloth Plaza, on Holy Cross IMT Road at East Nadakkavu, Kozhikode 673006. Its registered office, as noted above, is at Mannur on Kadalundi Road, south of the city. A backend and editorial office is listed separately at Style Enclave Apartments, Karimakkad, Thrikkakara, in Kochi, Kerala — placing an editorial support operation in the state's commercial capital, some 180 kilometres south of Kozhikode.
The contact page also shows how the newsroom receives the public. It invites readers to send breaking news tips and story ideas, with photographs or videos and a note of who shot them, explains that shared content is moderated before publication, and provides separate contacts for grievances and for compliance and legality questions. That public-facing structure — tips in, grievances handled, compliance named — matches the transparency of its ownership disclosures.
Coverage: The Malabar Districts First
The homepage is organised around the region in its name. Its Malabar section is subdivided by district — Kannur, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad and Wayanad — the six districts of northern Kerala that form the portal's home ground. Around that core sit Kerala Top for state news, National News — with economy, politics and achievement among its sub-sections — Entertainment, Sports, Business and Technology, and a set of distinctively named streams that give the portal its character.
Among those streams, Pravasi Lokam — the world of the expatriate — serves the Gulf Malayali diaspora whose families, remittances and journeys are central to Malabar's economy and daily conversation; its stories track matters such as flight disruptions in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and what they mean for Indian travellers. Arogya Lokam covers health, Loka Jalakam the wider world, Shubha Vartha carries encouraging human stories, Kauthuka Varthakal curiosities, and Vanitha Varthakal addresses women readers, with further sections for fashion and lifestyle, real estate, automobiles and a spotlight stream. The result is a general portal built outward from six districts, not a state portal that occasionally remembers the north.
Vision, Mission and Editorial Policy
Malabar News publishes its values alongside its news. Its vision, as stated on the About page, is to build a responsible and stable society on the values of non-discrimination, inclusion, harmony and diversity through progressive and just media activism; to build a community of ethical and humane citizens through unbiased news coverage from varied perspectives; and to be a flag-bearer of dependable news broadcasting built on trust and authenticity of sources. Its mission narrows that to an ambition readers can test daily: to be Kerala's most dependable and trustworthy regional news portal, with the most neutral and unbiased news and stories.
Its editorial policy grounds those claims politically and intellectually. The policy says the portal operates on the fundamentals of democracy, human rights, secularism and humanity, while protecting the integrity of the Indian Constitution; that reporting should empower readers with a scientific temper while honouring their spiritual value systems; and that, while appreciating righteous decisions by political leadership and authorities, Malabar News will remain critical of the deficiencies of people in power, without regional, religious or political affiliations or bias. For a portal serving a religiously and politically diverse region, those are considered commitments, published where readers can hold the newsroom to them.
Policies, Corrections and Accountability
The accountability framework extends beyond statements of intent. The site links readers to a correction policy, a fact-checking policy, an ethics policy, its ownership and funding information and its editorial team — a set of standing documents that the content-management section of its terms describes as the basis of trust built on accountability and transparency. The terms also set out the ordinary legal architecture of a professionally run portal: conditions for using the website, and the chief editor's responsibility for editorial content.
This apparatus matters more for a digital portal than for a legacy newspaper, because a website has no printed record and no press council listing that readers automatically know. By publishing who owns it, who edits it, how it corrects itself and how to complain — with named contacts for grievances and for compliance — Malabar News supplies the credentials its audience needs to judge it, and distinguishes itself from the anonymous news pages with which regional readers are also familiar.
Malabar Live and Social Distribution
The portal does not live on its website alone. Consultfull eMedia also owns Malabar Live, described as a YouTube-based online media channel, extending the newsroom's work into video. The company likewise owns the Facebook page and the X (formerly Twitter) account operating under the MalabarNewz handle, and a LinkedIn page under the Malabar News name. The homepage additionally invites readers into a WhatsApp community for fast news and offers subscription prompts for the latest updates, while a prominently displayed contact number invites readers to alert the newsroom to stories that society and the authorities should notice — with an assurance, in Malayalam, that a source's name and details will be kept confidential where needed.
That combination — website, YouTube channel, social handles, WhatsApp community and a public tip line — is the distribution system of a modern regional newsroom, and in Malabar it serves two audiences at once: residents of the six northern districts, and the large Malayali diaspora whose connection to home is now maintained largely through exactly these channels.
History, As Far As the Record Shows
The public record assembled on and around the site supports a careful chronology rather than a dramatic founding story. Some third-party company databases attribute a much earlier founding year to the Malabar News name, but the verifiable anchors are later: the malabarnews.com domain's registration is recorded in 2015 in WHOIS summaries, the site's own uploaded material dates from 2020, and the owning company, Consultfull eMedia & Business Pvt Ltd, carries a 2020 Kerala incorporation number. The responsible reading is that the current portal and company took their present form around 2020, whatever earlier history the name may have had — and this profile prefers that documented version to an unverified earlier date.
What is not in doubt is continuity since then: the homepage is updated daily in Malayalam, with dated stories across its district, state, national and diaspora sections, and its corporate and editorial disclosures have been maintained and refreshed over the years. In Kerala's competitive Malayalam digital market — where large newspaper groups and television networks run powerful websites — Malabar News has carved out the northern, Malabar-centred position its name promises, and documented its ownership and standards more fully than most outlets of any size.
