MYSTERIOUS: 4 - What They Never Told You

‘From day one, we captured the audience’: How TV9 Bharatvarsh’s war coverage took it to the top

“A real war broke out for the first time in 15 years, and we had planned ahead of others,” said Barun Das, chief executive officer of TV9. “That’s our editorial supremacy – that we could predict the events.”

Newslaundry · May 25, 2022

TV Newsance 171: Sudhir Chaudhary’s U-turn and bulldozers in Shaheen Bagh

The week kicked off with breathless coverage of a bulldozer in Shaheen Bagh. An Aaj Tak reporter clung on top of a JCB machine while Anjana Om Kashyap asked her viewers to wait patiently for some action. R Bharat anchors ran after the bulldozer, held discussions on what could be…

Newslaundry · May 14, 2022

From ‘celebrating’ it to praising #PMSeditionMove: How news anchors took a U-turn on sedition law

Last November was tough on some of India’s favourite news anchors.

Newslaundry · May 12, 2022

UP mahant’s rape threat: Republic, ABP, Aaj Tak skip it for Ukraine, Pak and azaan

A day after a video of a mahant threatening to abduct and rape Muslim women outside a mosque in Khairabad went viral, the National Commission for Women wrote to the UP DGP seeking action on Friday. But for a large section of the TV news media, it remained business as…

Newslaundry · Apr 8, 2022

Hafta letters: Saffronisation of India, subscriber event timings, elite liberals

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Newslaundry · Apr 2, 2022

Watch: Adityanath says ‘kathmulla’ during interview with Anjana Om Kashyap – and gets away with it

Days before Uttar Pradesh heads towards its third phase of polling, UP chief minister Adityanath gave an exclusive interview to Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap on February 17 in Jhansi.

Newslaundry · Feb 19, 2022

TV Newsance 162: Hindu Khatre Main Hain and News18’s ‘hate news’ programming

This week, entertainment got closer to news with Bigg Boss hosting a "reporting" competition with news editors from ABP News and Aaj Tak playing judge under the watchful eye of Salman Khan. Rakhi Sawant gave anchors a run for their money.

Newslaundry · Jan 23, 2022

#AssemblyPolls2019: Quick updates on numbers and TV news witticism

The results of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be announced today. More than 10 crore voters were on the electoral rolls to elect 378 MLAs in the two states — 90 in Haryana and 288 in Maharashtra. Earlier this week, our ground reporters in both states noted…

Newslaundry · Oct 24, 2019

How Chinmayanand’s school tried to discredit Asaram Bapu’s victim

Krishna Pal Singh, better known as Swami Chinmayanand, has been in troubled waters lately. On August 23, a video of a 23 year-old girl from Shahjahanpur’s SS Law College surfaced online, where she claimed that a “big leader of the saint society” in Shahjahanpur who had “destroyed the lives of…

Newslaundry · Sep 2, 2019