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What the newsrooms chased on 12 August

Captured for this day: 6674 items from 25 outlets, 123 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, 07 Aug – 20 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.

Captured live: the first item from 12 August 2026 reached the crawler 15.8 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
MumbaiVile Parle
6 outletsno alternative coverage2.0 items/hr
9 items
02
HimachalOrphan Widow Cess AddedPetrol Diesel Get CostlierMuch WillPay
5 outletsno alternative coverage1.6 items/hr
6 items
03
FCRAJPCParliament Monsoon Session
4 outletsno alternative coverage7.3 items/hr — fastest burst of the day
6 items
04
Saurav DasPuducherry
4 outletsno alternative coverage2.7 items/hr
4 items
05
FCRA Bill Nityanand Rai Moves JPC Motion Amid Lok Sabha Uproar Parliament
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.6 items/hr
4 items
06
IndiGoChennaiEngine
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.7 items/hr
4 items

Breaking News : मुंबई के विलेपार्ले में आग का तांडव | Mumbai Vile Parle Building Fire | India TV is the day’s clearest saturation event. 6 outlets, 9 items, 5 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, India Today, India TV, News18 India, The Hindu (web) running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

22h ago 16h 11h 5h now News18 India Aaj Tak India TV India Today Times Now The Hindu (web) 5 of 9 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “Breaking News : मुंबई के विलेपार्ले में आग का तांडव | Mumbai Vile Parle Building Fire | India TV”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Source map

25 outlets published items captured on 12 August 2026, 7 of them alternative, 6674 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
NDTV Indiandtvmainstream78711.8%6
News18 Indianetwork18mainstream67210.1%6
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream6609.9%10
Zee Newszee mediamainstream5698.5%11
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream5067.6%13
News18 (web)network18mainstream4636.9%64
India TVindependent news servicemainstream4126.2%12
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream3895.8%9
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3395.1%23
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2954.4%5
Indian Express (web)indian express groupmainstream2633.9%16
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2633.9%7
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2543.8%15
WIONzee mediamainstream2503.7%7
CNN-News18network18mainstream1812.7%45
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1782.7%13
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream821.2%7
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative440.7%1
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative290.4%2
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative190.3%0
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative60.1%0
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream60.1%0
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative40.1%0
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative20.0%0
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative10.0%0

Blind spots

Of the 123 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 12 August 2026:

120 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Breaking News : मुंबई के विलेपार्ले में आग का तांडव | Mumbai Vile Parle Building Fire | India TV (9 items), Petrol, Diesel Get Costlier In Himachal As Orphan, Widow Cess Added: How Much Will You Pay? (6 items), Parliament Monsoon Session News: FCRA बिल JPC को भेजने का प्रस्ताव लोकसभा में मंजूर | Top News (6 items)

0 Covered only by alternative

No story in this window was carried by alternative outlets alone.

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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6674 items on this day · 25 outlets · 123 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 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.