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What the newsrooms chased on 6 August

Captured for this day: 1863 items from 21 outlets, 230 of the day’s stories carried by more than one. How much of the day was captured depends on when ingestion ran — see the note under the calendar.

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14 calendar days, 24 Jul – 06 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 79,623 items across 44 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.

Fri242 Sat251
Sun26—
Mon27—
Tue28—
Wed29—
Thu30—
Fri311 Sat014
Sun02—
Mon035 Tue0425 Wed0532
Thu061863

Captured live: the first item from 06 August 2026 reached the crawler 20.6 hours after it was published, so the crawler was running while this day’s items were still inside every feed’s window. It is sampled well. Each RSS feed returns only its latest 15–200 items, so a day’s total is a record of what the crawler saw rather than a measurement of the day: a smaller count is a collection artefact, not a finding. It does not mean less news happened.

The day’s agenda

Ranked by how many separate items outlets published on this one calendar day (UTC) — the one reach-style measure that is comparable across outlets today. Bars show the mainstream and alternative share of the outlets covering each story.

01
13 outlets5.9 items/hr — fastest burst of the day
86 items
02
13 outlets5.9 items/hr
86 items
03
13 outlets5.8 items/hr
85 items
04
8 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
15 items
05
7 outletsno alternative coverage0.8 items/hr
16 items
06
7 outletsno alternative coverage0.8 items/hr
16 items

Breaking News: रेप केस में तरुण तेजपाल दोषी करार | Tarun Tejpal | Bombay High Court | Rape Case is the day’s clearest saturation event. 13 outlets, 86 items, 26 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, CNN-News18, India Today, India Today (web), Mojo Story running near-continuous coverage of one story. 3 of the covering outlets are alternative.

18h ago 14h 9h 5h now Republic Bharat The Hindu (web) Republic World CNN-News18 India Today TV9 Bharatvarsh Times Now ThePrint WION Scroll.in (web) India Today (web) Mojo Story Aaj Tak 26 of 86 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “Breaking News: रेप केस में तरुण तेजपाल दोषी करार | Tarun Tejpal | Bombay High Court | Rape Case”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Source map

21 outlets published items captured on 06 August 2026, 7 of them alternative, 1863 items in total. Every outlet links to its own site or channel so any figure here can be walked back to where it came from.

Share is share of what was captured, not of what was published. An item count is publishing volume — a channel posting rolling updates outweighs one filing twice — and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached. Stories counts how many of the day’s multi-outlet stories a source touched, which is the closer measure of agenda weight.

OutletOwnerTypeItemsShareStories
WIONzee mediamainstream23512.6%75
India Todayindia today groupmainstream23212.5%105
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream22712.2%67
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream21611.6%62
CNN-News18network18mainstream1779.5%80
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream1447.7%19
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1387.4%72
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream1337.1%17
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream874.7%13
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream874.7%51
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative432.3%7
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream351.9%13
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative261.4%18
India TVindependent news servicemainstream221.2%1
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative211.1%10
Indian Express (web)indian express groupmainstream201.1%0
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative100.5%3
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative40.2%0
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative20.1%2
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative20.1%0
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream20.1%0

Blind spots

Of the 230 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 06 August 2026:

198 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Eyewitness To A Nation | Anjana Kashyap | India Today Promo (34 items), Eyewitness To A Nation | Anjana Kashyap | India Today Promo (34 items), Eyewitness To A Nation | Anjana Kashyap | India Today Promo (34 items)

1 Covered only by alternative

Led by Amit Shah Still AWOL, Opposition Wants Him to Answer (2 items)

Read this as a description of a 21-outlet sample on one day, not a verdict on Indian media. The mainstream set is larger and posts far more often, so it will dominate any raw count. The number worth watching over weeks is the second one — and on days captured before ingestion started, both numbers are held down by how little of that day was collected at all.

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1863 items on this day · 21 outlets · 230 multi-outlet stories · 1623 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 79623 items across 44 days, 2864 stories.
Sources are public RSS feeds from outlet-operated YouTube channels and news sites. Headlines are quoted verbatim for commentary and criticism, each linked to its original. Hindi glosses are unverified working translations. Coverage counts describe a 21-outlet sample on a single day and are not a ranking of Indian media. Per-day totals reflect how much of each day the crawler captured, not how much news there was. Times are UTC. No legal review has been done.