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TV Newsance 206: A ‘new normal’ at the India Today Conclave

Amirtpal Singh is still on the loose and R Bharat is going wild with all the graphics it can use on this news story. For the sake of the country and sanity on TV news, we sure hope he’s caught soon.

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After ABVP poster, 3 channels falsely accuse a Newslaundry reporter of JNU stone-pelting

A day after an attempted screening of the BBC documentary on the JNU campus was followed by a power cut, stone-pelting, and a war of words between Left-affiliated student outfits and the ABVP, certain media channels amplified a poster released by a member of the latter, blaming 16 people for…

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TV Newsance 198: When Gautam Adani met Rajat Sharma and Kashmir Files drama

Why do billionaires buy media? This week, we look at the age-old tradition of rich men and women buying and investing in the media to gain influence – Gautam Adani is only the most recent of rich Indian industrialists to have a channel of his own. Over the past few…

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From 2022 to 2023: An NDTV without the Roys

At 4 pm on December 23, a meeting took place in a building in Greater Kailash 1, Delhi.

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NDTV will be independent, with clear ‘lakshman rekha’ between management, editorial: Adani on India Today

“NDTV will be a credible, independent, global network with a clear lakshman rekha between management and editorial,” said Adani Group owner Gautam Adani, in his first television interview since his conglomerate acquired NDTV.

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Network18 leads news broadcasters in getting ad money from Modi government

The Narendra Modi government released its media advertisement expenditure in the parliament earlier this week. Since it assumed power in 2014, the government has spent Rs 6,491 crore on advertisements in print and electronic media.

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‘Tall claim’: Tribune reporter calls out India Today for taking credit for LAC clash report

It could have been just another day in the unexamined life of the breaking news ticker.

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Why Axis My India exit poll underestimated the BJP in Delhi, Gujarat

There’s something for everyone in Indian politics this week. The Aam Aadmi Party has won the Delhi municipal elections; the Bharatiya Janata Party has bagged Gujarat; and the Congress will be back in power in Himachal Pradesh.

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News vs views: India Today’s age-old formula of using actor’s swimsuit pics, this time for Galwan debate

Prurient interest is all well and good, but served within the backdrop of India’s boundary dispute with China, it may acquire an olfactory resemblance to the much disputed pineapple pizza termed Hawaiian by its Canadian inventors.

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Meet Salvatore Babones, the American academic who called Indian intellectuals ‘anti-India’

In remarks widely reshared on social media, a western academic recently said at an India Today conclave that “India’s intellectual class is anti-India” and there’s a class that is “anti-Modi and anti-BJP”. He also argued that the international media is wrongly portraying India as a fascist state.

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Supreme Court quashes defamation case against India Today’s Aroon Purie

The Supreme Court today quashed a criminal defamation case filed against India Today founder and editor-in-chief Aroon Purie over a report that appeared in the magazine in 2007.

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Cough syrup deaths: Why is India’s drug regulator going after Dinesh Thakur and T Prashant Reddy?

It’s been over a week since public health activists Dinesh Thakur and T Prashant Reddy received an ominous notice from India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, warning them to stop “maligning the image of the institution and the nation at large”.

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TV Newsance 190: Republic vs Times Now. Who won?

Indian news TV operates by the revenue logic of ads. And who gets how many ads is dictated by the logic of TRPs. So when BARC, the TRPs measurement agency, returned with its data earlier this year after a hiatus forced by the TRP scam, so did the barking on…

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In 2019, Indian media had zero SC or ST journalists in leadership roles. In 2022, it’s still zero

In 2019, there were zero journalists from SC or ST backgrounds in leadership positions in India’s mainstream media newsrooms, spanning print, broadcast and digital.

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Republic TV vs Times Now: Who is right about ED’s TRP scam chargesheet?

Republic TV spent much of Thursday’s airtime on one “big story”: the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet in the TRP scam. The TV news channel stressed the point, repeatedly, that the central agency had issued a clean chit to Republic TV and found its rival Times Now guilty instead.

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TRP scam: ED says ‘irregularities vis a vis Times Now’ need to be investigated

In its ongoing investigation into the alleged TRP scam, the Enforcement Directorate has found certain households enrolled to measure TV viewership ratings had been paid to watch India Today and News Nation.

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‘When is your show facing probe?’: Republic now targets Rahul Kanwal in campaign against India Today

The media offensive by Republic TV against India Today is far from over, with the channel now targeting anchor Rahul Kanwal over the TRP scam. This comes days after the enforcement directorate gave a clean chit to Republic channels while saying that it had come across “leads that certain households…

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‘Stinks of conspiracy’: Arnab launches attack on India Today after ED clean chit on TRP scam

If you tuned into Republic TV last night for Arnab Goswami’s primetime show, you’d have been treated to “three truths” that viewers must know.

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TRP scam: Republic gets clean chit, India Today under ‘further investigation’

The enforcement directorate has given a clean chit to news channels Republic TV and R Bharat in a case related to the manipulation of television rating points, or TRPs. The central agency said in its chargesheet that it found no evidence against the channels, Indian Express reported.

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UP to give Rs 10 lakh aid to kin of 53 journalists who died of Covid

In its second such list, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced Rs 10 lakh aid for the families of 53 journalists who died of Covid. This comes one year after chief minister Adityanath handed over cheques of the same amount to families of 55 journalists, including TV Today anchor Rohit…

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Hafta letters: Indian cricket, pronunciation woes, new shows

Requesting NL to please start a CEO fund so that subscribers can top up Abhinandan to be nominated for India Today CEO of the year. Worth it just for the trolling.

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Alt News calls out Shiv Aroor, Chitra Tripathi, Sudhir Chaudhary, Rajat Sharma’s misinfo on Indian Navy ensign

India Today anchor Shiv Aroor did a show the other day outraging that Manmohan Singh’s government had the Indian Navy bring back a colonial ensign after it was banished during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s rule.

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TV news channels celebrate BARC ratings, Times Now becomes punching bag

“Others bark, we have bite”, “sensational crash”, “news scores over noise”, “India’s super network”, “leads always”.

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France respects India keeping Russia ties, foreign minister says

France is aware of and respects India's energy and other relations with Russia, its foreign minister told the India Today news channel on Thursday during a visit to the country.

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For Rs 8 lakh, you can be an ‘influential leader’ on India Today, Economic Times

The smallest font on the page says “confidential proprietary information”; the largest says “influential leaders of India 2022”. This is the first page of a document drafted by a company called Team Marksmen. It was quietly tucked at the bottom of an email sent to Newslaundry boss Abhinandan Sekhri last…

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