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What the newsrooms chased on 8 August

Captured for this day: 4571 items from 25 outlets, 287 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, 27 Jul – 09 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 13,554 items across 22 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.

Mon27
Tue28
Wed29
Thu30
Fri311 Sat014
Sun02
Mon035 Tue0425 Wed0532 Thu061843 Fri075774
Sat084571
Sun091285

Captured live: the first item from 08 August 2026 reached the crawler 0 minutes 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
10 outlets3.3 items/hr
63 items
02
10 outlets1.1 items/hr
21 items
03
8 outletsno alternative coverage1.0 items/hr
15 items
04
8 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
14 items
05
8 outlets1.2 items/hr
12 items
06
7 outlets3.1 items/hr
29 items

Imran Pratapgarhi Defends 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' | Congress Slams Prayagraj Event Cancellation is the day’s clearest saturation event. 10 outlets, 63 items, 27 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, ABP News, CNN-News18, India Today, News18 India running near-continuous coverage of one story. 1 of the covering outlets are alternative.

19h ago 14h 10h 5h now Zee News ThePrint ABP News Aaj Tak India Today TV9 Bharatvarsh Times Now CNN-News18 News18 India WION 27 of 63 items land in 2h →
Each dot is one published item on “Imran Pratapgarhi Defends 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' | Congress Slams Prayagraj Event Cancellation”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Outlets active

25 outlets published items captured on 08 August 2026, 8 of them alternative. Listed alphabetically, not ranked: an item count is publishing volume, and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached.

Aaj Takmainstream534 items
ABP Newsmainstream379 items
CNN-News18mainstream121 items
India Todaymainstream304 items
India Today (web)mainstream274 items
India TVmainstream340 items
Mojo Storyalternative21 items
NDTV (web)mainstream37 items
NDTV Indiamainstream420 items
News18 Indiamainstream322 items
Newslaundryalternative2 items
Newslaundry (web)alternative3 items
Republic Bharatmainstream235 items
Republic Worldmainstream68 items
Scroll.in (web)alternative42 items
The Hindu (web)mainstream406 items
ThePrintalternative10 items
The Quintalternative6 items
The Quint (web)alternative10 items
The Wirealternative5 items
Times Nowmainstream102 items
Times of India (web)mainstream86 items
TV9 Bharatvarshmainstream205 items
WIONmainstream163 items
Zee Newsmainstream476 items

Blind spots

Of the 287 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 08 August 2026:

270 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Superfast News: Ranchi Student Protest | Parliament Session | PM Modi | Rahul Gandhi | Hindi News (36 items), Superfast News: Ranchi Student Protest | Parliament Session | PM Modi | Rahul Gandhi | Hindi News (32 items), Atiq Ahmed Son Death: माफिया अतीक के बेटे की मौत पर होश उड़ाने वाला खुलासा! | Shaista Parveen (17 items)

3 Covered only by alternative

Led by Sheikh Hasina’s Delhi event hurt ties with India, Bangladesh ‘won’t be a client state’, says Dhaka (3 items), Two TISS students denied anticipatory bail for alleged slogans supporting Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam (3 items), Gumraah: Urdu Poetry on Being Lost, Misled and Finding the Way (2 items)

Read this as a description of a 25-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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4571 items on this day · 25 outlets · 287 multi-outlet stories · 585 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 13554 items across 22 days, 1093 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 25-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.