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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.

Newslaundry · Oct 31, 2022

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”.

Newslaundry · Oct 26, 2022

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…

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

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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.

Newslaundry · Oct 14, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 30, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 29, 2022

‘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…

Newslaundry · Sep 26, 2022

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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.

Newslaundry · Sep 23, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 22, 2022

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…

Newslaundry · Sep 21, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 17, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Sep 16, 2022

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”.

Newslaundry · Sep 15, 2022

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.

Reuters · Sep 15, 2022

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Newslaundry · Sep 7, 2022

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…

Newslaundry · Aug 19, 2022

'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

Newslaundry · Aug 17, 2022

Union home ministry denies Hardeep Puri’s Rohingya tweet – but blames media

Hardeep Singh Puri, union minister for housing and urban affairs, tweeted on Wednesday that the Indian government will provide housing and police protection to the Rohingya refugees in Delhi. Just a few hours later, the union home ministry denied there was such a plan. Instead of clarifying, however, that Puri…

Newslaundry · Jul 30, 2022

TV Newsance 181: Ranveer Singh’s ‘bum’ makes it to primetime

Believe it or not, Ranveer Singh’s nude shoot made it to primetime TV news discussion this week. Sudhir Chaudhary, now on Aaj Tak, wondered about the actor’s majboori, while giving us gyaan on sanskaar. We also catch him repeating his show theme from Zee News: in the span of a…

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Newslaundry · Jul 29, 2022

‘No irreparable loss caused’: Delhi HC refuses India Today interim relief in copyright case against Newslaundry

The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to direct Newslaundry to take down its videos which contain clips from India Today and Aaj Tak broadcasts and, according to a suit brought by TV Today, infringe copyright.

Newslaundry · Jul 22, 2022

Showing animal cruelty without warning: High court refuses to interfere in order against TV Today Network

A professional broadcaster must bear in mind “the minimum precautions which must be exercised while broadcasting content which may cause distress to...an ordinary and prudent viewer”.

Newslaundry · Jul 21, 2022

Sculptor Anish Kapoor says India Today canned his interview for his remarks on India’s political situation

British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has alleged that the India Today magazine decided to junk his interview after he refused to remove or tone down his views on Indian society and politics. “If our journals of note are afraid, if we must censor ourselves out of fear, we are lost,” he…

Newslaundry · Jul 18, 2022

Who Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today Group

Forty seven years ago, in 1975, Madhu Trehan founded India Today magazine, although her father Vidya Vilas Purie had originally envisioned it as a tabloid. Trehan had returned from the United States, where she studied journalism at Columbia University and worked with the UN and India Abroad, among other organisations.

Newslaundry · Jul 13, 2022

India Today Group really is a ‘natural home’ for Sudhir Chaudhary

In a memo to the India Today Group staff, vice chairperson Kalli Purie excitedly introduced Sudhir Chaudhary as their new consulting editor. We are certain the newsroom was just as excited. As the employees were reminded by their boss, Chaudhary brings the experience and fanbase of his last show, DNA…

Newslaundry · Jul 11, 2022

How local reporters, state government thwarted Delhi media’s efforts to peddle #FloodJihad

Imagine you’re a stringer for a major news organisation in Delhi. You’re based in Assam, which has seen over 190 flood-related deaths this year. You receive a phone call from your bosses instructing you to investigate a new, sinister claim – that of “flood jihad”.

Newslaundry · Jun 29, 2022

Funding to 'non-cooperation': One-sided reportage on Zubair, with help from anonymous sources

Sources say that TV news channels’ reportage on Mohammad Zubair’s arrest has left a lot to be desired. They claim that cross-checking and balance were missing from several reports and the broadcasters over-reliant on the Delhi police. These sources then switched off the television and waited for the morning newspapers…

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