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Kejriwal vs Sandeep Dikshit vs Parvesh Verma: Delhi’s fiercest poll battle

Home to some of the country’s top political leaders, bureaucrats, judges and industrialists, New Delhi has always been a high-profile constituency. But the stakes are even higher this time, with a former chief minister pitted against the sons of two former CMs.

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Delhi HC bars satirist from using logos ‘similar’ to India TV over trademark rights

The Delhi High Court has restrained a political satirist from using an identical India TV logo and the phrase “Baap Ki Adalat” in social media posts after the channel’s editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma filed a lawsuit for violation of “trademark and personality rights”, the Indian Express reported.

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Cong seeks unconditional apology as Ragini Nayak accuses Rajat Sharma of abusing her on live TV

Congress national spokesperson Ragini Nayak has accused India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma of abusing her on live television. A video of the telecast – that was uploaded on the channel’s YouTube account – has been edited to remove the controversial portion.

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Godi media is about to change, but it must resist the Lutyens pull

Mainstream media is about to change. It will happen in fits and starts. But it is inevitable.Before I go into the reasons why, let me talk about two terms that Ravish Kumar coined for journalists. The first, godi media, has entered our everyday lexicon. It is a product of the Modi era.…

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From India Today to India TV, Zee goes all guns blazing against top media owners

The exit polls nearly got everything wrong. The markets tanked. The pollsters cried. And the papers underlined the need for stricter disclosure norms. But while the trends solidified on Tuesday, Zee News chose to bring out the knives against at least four media rivals and their owners – purportedly over…

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Videos deleted, YouTube channels defunct: What happens when Indian TV is accused of copyright violations

Several Indian news channels have allegedly deleted thousands of videos over the last few days to avoid penalties after copyright violation strikes – a legal process to remove copyrighted content – on YouTube. Most of these videos contained footage of natural disasters from across the globe.

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2023 could have been the year that wrecked Adani. Did it?

There was one question on everyone’s mind the first month of this year: Will the Adani Group be able to weather the Hindenburg storm?

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How Patanjali rode on the shoulders of Big Media

On television, we’ve seen Baba Ramdev contort, stretch, do headstands, and walk on his hands. We’ve seen him compete in push-up contests with students, and close his eyes dramatically when shown a photograph of a Bollywood actress wearing a bikini.

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Before viral video, little primetime space for Manipur, few ground reports by big anchors

Cornered by Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi on the lack of debates on Manipur until the emergence of a viral video, Times Now chief editor Navika Kumar on Wednesday denied the allegation and also promised to send her “links” of the channel’s coverage.

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After ABVP poster, 3 channels falsely accuse a Newslaundry reporter of JNU stone-pelting

A day after an attempted screening of the BBC documentary on the JNU campus was followed by a power cut, stone-pelting, and a war of words between Left-affiliated student outfits and the ABVP, certain media channels amplified a poster released by a member of the latter, blaming 16 people for…

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TV Newsance 198: When Gautam Adani met Rajat Sharma and Kashmir Files drama

Why do billionaires buy media? This week, we look at the age-old tradition of rich men and women buying and investing in the media to gain influence – Gautam Adani is only the most recent of rich Indian industrialists to have a channel of his own. Over the past few…

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Aaj Tak and India TV air BJP promotional content as news

For observers of television news media’s decline, it may no longer seem odd for Indian news anchors to sit inside the BJP headquarters to host shows airing the party’s propaganda. But what if they telecast bytes and lift videos from a publicity arm of the BJP?

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Is Aaj Tak’s bet on Sudhir Chaudhary paying off?

Sudhir Chaudhary was the face of Zee News for nearly a decade. So much so that the Hindi TV news channel’s brand, after a point, was indistinguishable from him. So, when he abruptly quit in June 2022, all eyes were on his next move.

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87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men

Eighty-seven percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top English and Hindi newspapers are men.

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TV Newsance 188: China ‘coup’ and the battle against PFI

This week we look at how social media rumours about a coup in China against Xi Jinping made it to TV news. A satirical thread on Twitter became breaking news on Republic Bharat. India TV and other Hindi news channels joined the fun and received international attention this week for…

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DD News show brings anti-Muslim and pro-BJP flavours of private TV channels to state broadcaster

“Doordarshan is committed to providing quality content. And several steps have been taken for the creation and acquisition of high quality programmes,” Anurag Thakur, union minister for information and broadcasting, told the Rajya Sabha earlier this month in response to a question by Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut. “According to BARC…

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Take down ‘sensationalist’ shows on Umar Khalid, regulator tells Zee, India TV, Aaj Tak

The National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has objected to how some TV news channels have covered student leader Umar Khalid’s prosecution for alleged offences related to the 2020 Delhi communal carnage.

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Operation Sting

Let’s face it – sting operations are to news what nudity is to cinema. So it is hardly a surprise that in these times when television news is a fiercely frantic TRP battle, news channels sting with alarming frequency and unbridled zest. Many sting ops, expectedly, are plain ridiculous and…

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