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TV Newsance 244: Ambani pre-wedding, Rahul Kanwal’s method anchoring, Savarkar biopic

The past week, the internet was taken over by junior Ambani’s “pre-wedding function”, which saw the world’s elites land in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. We take a look at the event’s media coverage, and how the TV news anchor’s stance on certain Ambani guests swiftly changed.

Newslaundry · Mar 9, 2024

‘Though alive today, every organ is failing me’: GN Saibaba after his decade in prison

“Except for the polio that I’ve had since my childhood, I went to jail without any health issues. But today, I am in front of you though alive, each and every organ failing me,” said GN Saibaba, 59, a former Delhi University professor who was released from Nagpur Central Jail…

Newslaundry · Mar 9, 2024

Hafta 475: BJP’s candidates list, TMC strongman’s arrest in Sandeshkhali case

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by journalist Radhika Ramaseshan.

Newslaundry · Mar 9, 2024

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Awful and Awesome Ep 343: Laapataa Ladies, Mr & Mrs Smith, The Holdovers

Abbas: Did you see? Karan Johar has put up a high production quality pre-wedding video of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. Our pre-wedding videos are by some random ‘Chandu video wala’.

Newslaundry · Mar 8, 2024

‘Diversity initiatives performative’: Women populate newsrooms, not top roles, says Reuters study

Across 240 news outlets on five continents, women make up only 24 percent of the top editors, and men hold the top positions even at media organisations where women outnumber men, as per a report released by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Newslaundry · Mar 8, 2024

‘They’ll say he has joined BJP’: Ranveer Allahbadia among 23 to win National Creators Award

It was the first-ever National Creators Award. And who better to present it than “India’s most influential creator” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ostensibly without his creative team on stage.

Newslaundry · Mar 8, 2024

How an accident caused by BJP minister’s convoy in Assam was kept under wraps for two days

In the early hours of March 4, a convoy belonging to Assam cabinet minister Pijush Hazarika was allegedly speeding down the Guwahati-Shillong road in Six Mile area of Guwahati when one of the vehicles hit a two-wheeler carrying two passengers.

Newslaundry · Mar 8, 2024

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Is it a rally? A BJP event? Close enough, it’s the Republic Summit 2024

Amid chants of “Modi, Modi”, Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami declared on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin his “historic third term” in a few weeks.

Newslaundry · Mar 8, 2024

Foreign media not allowed to cover PM’s Kashmir rally

Journalists from foreign media outlets were not allowed to cover Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Srinagar on Thursday, sources in the government and media told Newslaundry. This was Modi’s first visit to the Union territory after Article 370 – which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir – was…

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

2 Punjab journalists say ‘heckled’ by AAP MLA in assembly’s press lounge

Two journalists have accused Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, the AAP MLA from Patiala’s Sanour, of heckling them inside the Punjab assembly’s press lounge.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

How much is too much? Modi slams media for ‘suppressing’ news about his ‘public service’

The prime minister’s face might be splashed across your newspaper every morning, but the man himself is despondent about the media not covering him enough.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

Uttarakhand: Journalist who sought ‘justice’ in murder case ‘involving BJP leader’ arrested

The Uttarakhand police have arrested local journalist Ashutosh Negi, who has been reporting on and protesting to seek justice in the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case involving a BJP leader’s son, Indian Express reported.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

‘Wilfully disobeyed’ SC directions: Contempt plea against SBI over electoral bonds

A contempt petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the State Bank of India after it reportedly missed the March 6 deadline to disclose information about electoral bonds purchased and encashed since 2019, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

‘Not anti, only notional’: After GN Saibaba’s acquittal, editorials slam UAPA, ‘shoddy’ investigations

On March 5, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court set aside the conviction of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2024

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Newslaundry · Mar 6, 2024

2020 TRP scam case: Maharashtra court allows cops to withdraw prosecution

A Maharashtra magistrate court has allowed the withdrawal of prosecution into the 2020 TRP scam case, in which Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami was an accused, Livelaw reported.

Newslaundry · Mar 6, 2024

Coverage of Ambani ‘pre-wedding’ tells you everything that’s wrong with the media today

Last week, I spoke to some students at a Mumbai college. They were in their second-year of a three-year degree course in media studies. I asked them how many of them wanted to be journalists. In a class of around 35, only one young woman raised her hand.

Newslaundry · Mar 6, 2024

Needs ‘immediate attention’: Delhi High Court asks Centre to respond over French journalist’s plea

The Delhi High Court this week sought a response from the central government over a plea by French journalist Vanessa Dougnac against her being denied permission to work as a journalist in India.

Newslaundry · Mar 5, 2024

Himanta family’s grip on the headlines via Northeast India’s biggest media empire

On January 18, as the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra passed through Assam, Rahul Gandhi addressed a public gathering in Jorhat.

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Newslaundry · Mar 4, 2024

Chennai: An intercaste love story ends in cold-blooded ‘caste killing’

Nineteen-year-old Sharmila from Chennai lost her husband Praveen to a caste killing on February 24. The 22-year-old man belonging to the Paraiyar caste, classified as Scheduled Caste, was murdered by Sharmila’s elder brother Dinesh (24) and four other men, most of them caste Hindus, in the Pallikaranai locality.

Newslaundry · Mar 4, 2024

How the Supreme Court, over decades, established news media’s right to ad revenue

Last week, The Times of India reported that advertisement flow to India’s print media is expected to show seven percent growth in 2024, a record level of rise that exceeds even pre-pandemic levels. As a market leader in print ad revenue, Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd, the media conglomerate that…

Newslaundry · Mar 2, 2024

Delhi court asks Bloomberg to remove ‘defamatory’ article on ‘accounting issues’ at Zee

A Delhi court has asked news outlet Bloomberg to remove an article about alleged accounting issues at Zee Entertainment Enterprises within a week in a defamation case filed by the latter, Livelaw reported.

Newslaundry · Feb 19, 2024

41 years of Nellie massacre: A pre-Godhra chapter for New India, with Assam’s ‘wage of indigenousness’

It’s been 41 years since the Nellie massacre of February 18, 1983, seen as one of the most horrific events of collective violence in independent India. Official estimates put casualties anywhere between 1,800 and 2,000, while less conservative figures hover around 7,000. But do these numbers matter more than the…

Newslaundry · Feb 14, 2024

‘Godi media, go back’: ABP journalist manhandled, heckled by protesters at Shambhu border

ABP journalist Jagwinder Patial was manhandled, heckled, and his earphone smashed by protesters at Shambhu border today, amid sloganeering of “Godi media murdabad” and “Godi media wapas jao”.

Newslaundry · Feb 14, 2024

Andhra Pradesh HC issues contempt notices to three media houses for ‘derogatory’ posts against judges

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday named three local media channels – TV5, Mahaa News and Myra Media – among those accused of making derogatory remarks against two judges who dismissed a quash petition filed by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged skill development scam case.

Newslaundry · Feb 13, 2024

‘Govt concealing facts’: Caravan notice points to ‘absurd confidentiality’ of takedown

In another instance pointing to opaque content takedowns in India, The Caravan has been told to remove a piece it had published two weeks ago under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act and its rules. The article pertains to the alleged torture and deaths of villagers in Jammu and…

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