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Hafta letters: Media bubbles, migrant voters, and Manisha’s recommendation

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Noida violence: Times Now, CNN-News18 ‘unearth’ a dark ‘conspiracy’ of QR codes, WhatsApp groups

Since last Thursday, hundreds of contractual workers have been protesting at the NSEZ metro station with a basic list of demands, including a livable wage of Rs 20,000, compensation for unpaid overtime, and the simple dignity of humane working conditions. For four days, the national television media looked right through…

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Zakka Jacob set to leave News18, to join Times Now as managing editor

Zakka Jacob is set to leave CNN-News18 to join Times Now as managing editor, Newslaundry has learnt. He currently serves as senior anchor and group foreign affairs editor at CNN-News18.

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‘Archetypal journalist’ Rahul Shivshankar to take CNN-News18 to new heights

Zakka Jacob will step away from his position as Managing Editor of CNN-News18. Rahul Shivshankar of ‘Mr McAdams’ fame will lead things at the channel, assuming the position of Editorial Affairs Director, according to an internal email sent to Network 18 employees.

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Murder, manglik, men’s rights: Welcome to TV’s fever dream of the Sonam-Raja case

Newlyweds Sonam and Raja Raghuvanshi disappeared during their honeymoon in the misty hills of Shillong’s East Khasi district between May 23 and 24. On June 2, Raja was discovered in a gorge below Wei Sawdong Falls in the district, with his throat slit and valuables missing. Sonam was found in…

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Placement crisis for students looking for TV jobs at J-schools

Top journalism schools are facing a crisis as television news channels pull back from campus placements, suggesting a turbulence in the Indian TV news industry. Students aspiring for TV jobs are left staring at unpaid internships, gig work, and career pivots – none of which match the expectation of high…

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Chief of top Indian university sparks backlash for promoting ‘medicinal value’ of cow urine

In a video that has now gone viral, Kamakoti can be heard narrating a story about an Indian ascetic who apparently cured himself of high fever by consuming cow urine

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‘Bitcoin bomb’: How legacy media played up Supriya Sule’s fake audio clips on election eve

On the eve of elections, you might expect news channels to focus on coverage that helps voters make an informed choice.

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Quick Facts About Pete Hegseth: Divorces And Affairs, Net Worth, And Salary As Secretary of Defense

Pete Hegseth, former Fox News host and military veteran, has been appointed Secretary of Defense by President-elect Donald Trump, bringing a mix of conservative advocacy, military service, and a controversial personal life to the role.

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TV Newsance 267: Excitement over ‘one nation, one election’, Times Now’s Fight Club

Abhinandan is back this week on hosting duties as Manisha is on the ground covering the Kashmir elections.

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Omar Abdullah slams Rahul Shivshankar’s ‘misinformation’ on US diplomats’ Kashmir visit

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference chairperson Omar Abdullah slammed Network18 consulting editor Rahul Shivshankar for spreading “misinformation and disinformation” in connection with the US diplomats’ recent visit to Kashmir.

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‘Breach of privilege’: Questions loom over ‘unauthorised’ parliament videos shared by Navika Kumar

On July 3, Times Now chief Navika Kumar tweeted four videos of Lok Sabha proceedings on her X account. But the source of her videos has come under cloud with Congress MP R Sudha writing to Speaker Om Birla seeking a probe.

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Times Now points to ‘attack’ at AAP office after media coordinator told crew ‘not to force way inside’

Times Now has claimed that its journalist Aakanksha Khajuria and video journalist Radha Krishna were attacked at the AAP office when they tried to approach party leader Durgesh Pathak to ask him about the allegations against him in an alleged foreign funding case.

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TV Newsance 252: Modi’s emotional interview with Times Now’s Sushant and Navika

We are back this week, and so is Prime Minister Narendra Modi with another TV interview. With the election season heating up, we are seeing newer versions of Modi with each passing week and each passing interview.

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In run-up to LS polls on TV, 52% primetime segments against Oppn, around 1% on jobs, education

Indian democracy is at a critical juncture, with the world’s largest elections underway, and misinformation rampant. While the country’s press freedom ranking has slipped to 161 and Indian democracy has been categorised as an “electoral autocracy” in the latest V-Dem report, is the media making voters aware of key issues,…

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TV Newsance 237: #BoycottMaldives trends and Godi media finds a new ‘enemy’

This week started with Indian social media and the Godi media, both finding a new “enemy” to hate on as they campaigned against the Maldives.

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Maldives misadventures, featuring Muizzu govt and the media

Mohamed Muizzu’s government in the Maldives is caught in a melee. Having stormed to power over a hyper-nationalist poll campaign against “Indian military presence”, just four months later, it’s now requesting China to send in more tourists to the island nation after a diplomatic stand-off with India and the looming…

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‘Didn’t know caste’: HC junks FIR against Times Now reporter in caste slur case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against Times Now Navbharat reporter Bhawana Kishore in a rash driving and caste slur case in May last year. The court said the senior journalist had “no personal knowledge of the victim’s caste,” Livelaw reported.

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‘He has Sita and Ram in his name’: Media badgers Yechury after CPIM’s Ram Temple miss

Hours after CPIM’s Politburo member Brinda Karat clarified that no leader from her party will attend the Ram Temple inauguration, a section of the media badgered her party colleague Sitaram Yechury for comments.

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Indian wrestling loses a champion. Primetime couldn’t care less

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.

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Amid polls, Cong leaders snub INDIA bloc ban to give exclusive interviews to ‘boycotted’ anchors

Nearly a month after the opposition’s Congress-led INDIA alliance “blacklisted” 14 anchors for their alleged “hateful” debates and anti-opposition narratives — two top leaders of the Congress have given “exclusive” interviews to two of these anchors.

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Year after ‘Garba jihad’ bogey, NBDSA tells Times Now Navbharat to take down Navika show episode

Times Now Navbharat has been told to take down an episode of Navika Kumar’s primetime show Sawal Public Ka for violating guidelines aimed at preventing a communal colour in reportage on crime and riots.

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‘Explosive, albeit unproven’: Canadian media on Trudeau’s allegations against India

The unease brewing in India-Canada relations, now at its possible lowest, was laid bare for the public as Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau cited “credible intelligence” in the country’s parliament to allege the role of the Indian government’s agents in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar “on Canadian soil” in…

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How INDIA selected 14 anchors to boycott: Review of anchors’ social media, hate on debates

In the run-up to the opposition INDIA alliance’s blacklisting of 14 TV news anchors last week, almost all the members of the 26-party bloc’s coordination committee narrowed down on names of “partisan” anchors ahead of a joint discussion.

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2 months after Times Now exit, Rahul Shivshankar set to join Network18

Over two months after he left Times Now as the chief editor, Rahul Shivshankar is now set to join Network18 as a consulting editor.

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