Jay Dave Vadodara

Media strategist and technologist. Journalism, intelligence and technology, and the quiet systems that hold them together.

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About

I grew up inside a newsroom. Today I shape how one tells its stories, read a complicated world for an international audience, and design the technology that lets small teams work like large ones.

Work
Three ventures

Where the work lives.

Chief Media Strategist

Sayaji Samachar

A Gujarati news channel since 2004, re-engineered for the way its audience now watches.

sayajisamachar.news
Founder

Reign Sovereign Media

An English-language intelligence journal for a world that doesn't wait.

reignsovereign.media
Co-organiser

Allaiya Ballaiya

Vadodara's children's garba, thirty years on, and run on a new digital pass system.

Studio
Software, privately made

Made in the studio.

Duly

Memory, kept private

Ssshout

Radio without a network

Lowkey

Messaging, by invitation

GLIDE

Television, reimagined

cityWATCH

The city, ward by ward

OpenTorrent

Files, openly shared

Wingman

Play, anywhere

PrintPrint

Print, simplified

Decimen

Transfer, air-gapped

FLARE

A game of cards

A private collection, designed for my own operations and the people around them. Some of it is public. Most of it is shared by invitation.

Formation
Three countries

Formed in three countries.

Early years

Vadodara

Journalism at SP University, and a childhood inside a newsroom.

2016–2018

Israel

A volunteer with the IDF through Sar-El, then two years of living there.

2019–2020

Canada

Advanced Communication and Public Relations at Fanshawe College, Ontario.

Practice
What I bring

Media strategy

How a newsroom finds, tells and carries its stories.

Intelligence

Geopolitics read with patience, from distant capitals to a single city ward.

Applied AI

Language, voice and vision models at work inside real operations, with an editor at the end.

Live experiences

Public occasions at scale, held to an exacting standard of care.

For select engagements and conversations.

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Based inVadodara, India
LanguagesEnglish, Hindi, Gujarati
ElsewhereReign Sovereign Media
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