For decades, Asian News International (ANI) has occupied a near-monopoly in India’s television news ecosystem. With a business reportedly worth hundreds of crores, the agency supplies video footage and sound bites to news channels across the country and abroad. Its reporters are seemingly everywhere, often making ANI the only visual source for breaking news.
Yet on July 20, when Delhi Police launched a brutal crackdown on thousands of students protesting in Delhi, ANI had nothing to say. An analysis of ANI’s output shows that of the 404 X posts shared by the news agency that day, not a single one mentioned injury to protestors.
