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There are many women newsroom leaders in the Indian news space. But there was not a single primetime debate on most mainstream channels on the day Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik quit wrestling over a Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh loyalist’s election as the Wrestling Federation of India president.

ET Prime has laid off a third of its employees as part of a restructuring process to integrate it with the Economic Times, two senior executives told Newslaundry.

It wasn’t the first time that rumours of Dawood Ibrahim’s death set sections of the Indian media abuzz. And it was so bad that even OpIndia did a fact-check.

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Basant Kumar from Newslaundry, and Astha Savyasachi and Tapasya from The Reporters’ Collective.

Yesterday, for the third day in a row, hundreds of journalists gathered in a football stadium in Maharashtra’s Nagpur to hold a protest. To coincide with the winter session of the Maharashtra assembly, they held a symbolic fast while wearing black ribbons and praising stalwarts who supported press freedom like…

Times Internet Limited laid off over 120 employees in the past three days, at least five senior executives confirmed to Newslaundry. TIL is the digital division of the Times Group, housing verticals like iDiva, MensXP and Cricbuzz.

Adani group-owned AMG Media Networks Ltd has acquired a 50.5 percent stake in Delhi-headquartered news agency Indo-Asian News Service or IANS, said the company. 

It was a security breach at the Parliament complex on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, and it was also a protest against “dictatorship”. While some voices, such as BJD MP Bhartruhari Mehtab, cautioned that the incident could not be compared to the  terrorist attack, hawkish faces on television…

Nine years ago, Ujjain’s pilgrimage city master plan got a major boost with the allocation of about 820 acres of land for the Simhastha Mela Satellite town. But controversy flared up earlier this year as a major chunk of this agricultural land turned into a private residential colony, with most…