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Defiant Indian students vow to show Modi documentary

NEW DELHI: Indian students said they would show again a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the government has dismissed as propaganda after a Tuesday campus screening was disrupted by a power cut and intimidation by opponents.

Bangkok Post

Journalist body calls for Media Council to replace ‘toothless’ Press Council and NBDSA

A statement issued yesterday by the Delhi Union of Journalists said a Media Council needs to be set up on a priority basis to replace “the toothless Press Council and the NBDSA which more than often is a prisoner of indecision.”

Newslaundry

NDTV president Suparna Singh, 2 others step down over a month after Adani takeover

More than a month after the Adani Group’s takeover of NDTV, the channel’s group president Suparna Singh, Chief Strategy Officer Arijit Chatterjee, Chief Technology and Product Officer Kawaljit Singh Bedi have resigned from the television broadcasting network.

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India Go First flight leaves with more than 50 passengers stranded on Tarmac

One of the abandoned passengers slammed it as the ‘heights of negligence’

Evening Standard

At NDTV meet after Adani takeover, staff queries on editorial freedom, BJP leaders on shows

In a town hall meeting held days after the Adani takeover of NDTV, the network’s new leadership on Wednesday addressed questions by staff about the news organisation’s editorial freedom, salaries, expansion, and BJP spokespersons on shows.

Newslaundry

Among media outlets, Times Group, Zee shared most misinformation in 2022: Alt News

The Times Group topped Alt News’s list of media outlets that shared misinformation in 2022, followed by Zee Media, the India Today Group, right-wing blog OpIndia and NDTV.

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'Diversity, new formats, quality reportage': Journalists list out their hopes for 2023

It was a packed year for the media. From assembly polls in seven states, the election of the president and vice-president, the churn in the opposition space in Bihar and Maharashtra, to extreme weather events, significant verdicts such as the one on EWS quota, India’s G-20 presidency, the boundary standoff,…

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Adani takes control of NDTV, buys promoters at 17% premium to open offer price

NEW DELHI: Adani group on Friday gained full control of news broadcaster NDTV after it acquired most of founders -- Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy -- stake at a premium of almost 17 per cent over the rate it paid to minority shareholders of the firm.

The Times of India

Adani Group Completes Majority Acquisition Of NDTV

The Adani Group on Friday said it had acquired 27.26 per cent equity stake in NDTV from the promoters -- Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy -- indicating that the group had acquired the majority stake in the media firm. Read on ford details:

Dynamite News

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.

Newslaundry

2022 could’ve been the year BARC regained news broadcasters' trust. It wasn’t.

The Indian news broadcasting industry is primarily split into two fraternities at loggerheads with each other. But over the last few months, both of them have approached the country’s premier television ratings agency, asking it to fix its faulty TRP measuring system. Titans of Indian journalism, meanwhile, have continued to…

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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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Prannoy, Radhika Roy to sell most of their NDTV shares to Adani

Days after the Adani Group became the largest shareholder in NDTV, the network’s founders Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy have said that they will sell 27.26 percent of their remaining 32.26 percent shareholding to the conglomerate.

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In another bulk deal, one of NDTV’s biggest investors sells Rs 3.2 lakh of its shares

One of NDTV’s biggest investors, LTS Investment Fund limited, sold over 3.2 lakh of its shares in the company network in a bulk deal on Friday. The shares were sold for Rs 366.65 each.

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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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NDTV’s largest investors sell shares in bulk deals

LTS Investment Fund Limited, a foreign portfolio investor in NDTV, sold over 5.46 lakh of its shares in the company network in a bulk deal on Wednesday. LTS, which held 9.75 percent of NDTV shares, sold the shares for Rs 358.53 each.

Newslaundry

Who Owns Your Media: The saga of NDTV

The Adani group’s open offer for additional 26 percent shares of New Delhi Television Limited, or NDTV, that began tendering after over a month’s delay on November 22, 2022, finally came to a close yesterday. Managing to get 31.7 percent of the bid quantity, the group acquired 8.26 percent of…

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Indian billionaire Adani is now NDTV’s biggest shareholder

The news network’s takeover has raised fears that one of the country’s last bastions of free press is under threat.

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Adani is now NDTV’s largest shareholder, with control over 37% of the company

The Adani group’s open offer to NDTV shareholders came to an end today, with 31.79 percent shares of the 167 lakh shares in the open offer subscribed. This is approximately 8.26 percent of the company’s total shares.

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Ravish Kumar: Who killed the news?

The media space in India has changed, said senior journalist Ravish Kumar in a heartfelt video on his YouTube channel – explaining his decision to end his 26-year journey with NDTV this week. On the sidelines of The Media Rumble this year, Newslaundry spoke to the Magsaysay awardee on the…

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It’s easy to forget the contribution of NDTV’s Roys to journalism. It’s time to remedy that

When I was in my last year of high school, a classmate declared that he had seen Prannoy Roy at a petrol pump the previous evening.

The Guardian - UK

Billionaire Modi ally on verge of taking over independent Indian news channel

Gautam Adani’s takeover of NDTV is ‘serious threat to democracy’ in India, says news anchor

Newslaundry

Journalism can be so much more than stenography. Ravish Kumar taught us that

This column cannot begin without mentioning the importance to Indian journalism of Ravish Kumar, who resigned from NDTV yesterday after almost 27 years there. His video statement after resigning is not just moving but also an exemplary lesson for us on what journalism is meant to be – but increasingly…

Al Jazeera

Concerns over free press in India after NDTV’s Ravish Kumar quits

One of India’s most popular TV journalists quits the network recently acquired by billionaire considered close to BJP.

Newslaundry

‘Don’t know what I’ll do at 9 pm now’: Ravish explains move to quit NDTV journey in heartfelt video

A day after resigning from NDTV, veteran journalist Ravish Kumar left a heartfelt video on his YouTube channel, explaining the reasons behind his decision to end his 26-year journey with the broadcaster.

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