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What the newsrooms chased on 13 August

Captured for this day: 6986 items from 26 outlets, 164 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 13 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
TexasTexas Helicopter CrashApacheSoldiersArmy Apache Crash Texas
6 outletsno alternative coverage2.2 items/hr
7 items
02
Parliament Monsoon Session
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
9 items
03
KarFormer TMC MLA Nirmal GhoshOver Alleged
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.9 items/hr
5 items
04
Sushmita DevJohn Brittas
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.2 items/hr
5 items
05
Sukhbir Singh BadalSukhbir Badal Attack
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.7 items/hr
4 items
06
Sukhbir Singh Badal
3 outletsno alternative coverage2.6 items/hr
5 items

US Army Apache Crash: अमेरिका का AH-64 अपाचे हेलीकॉप्टर क्रैश, 2 की मौत! | Texas |Military Accident is the day’s clearest saturation event. 6 outlets, 7 items, 4 of them inside 2 hours — CNN-News18, Republic Bharat, Republic World, Times Now, TV9 Bharatvarsh running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

22h ago 17h 11h 6h now TV9 Bharatvarsh Republic Bharat CNN-News18 Republic World Times Now WION 4 of 7 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “US Army Apache Crash: अमेरिका का AH-64 अपाचे हेलीकॉप्टर क्रैश, 2 की मौत! | Texas |Military Accident”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Source map

26 outlets published items captured on 13 August 2026, 7 of them alternative, 6986 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 Indiandtvmainstream75610.8%11
News18 Indianetwork18mainstream73310.5%17
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream6949.9%17
Zee Newszee mediamainstream5718.2%11
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream5557.9%18
News18 (web)network18mainstream4306.2%69
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4155.9%10
India TVindependent news servicemainstream3935.6%11
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3655.2%22
Indian Express (web)indian express groupmainstream3184.6%22
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2844.1%17
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2733.9%5
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2653.8%16
WIONzee mediamainstream2563.7%16
CNN-News18network18mainstream1692.4%55
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1682.4%13
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream1001.4%13
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream771.1%3
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream480.7%6
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative460.7%0
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative310.4%2
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative140.2%0
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative130.2%1
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative80.1%0
Newslaundry (web)newslaundryalternative30.0%0
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative10.0%0

Blind spots

Of the 164 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 13 August 2026:

161 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Viral Video : 'किसी के सामने नहीं गिड़गिड़ाया'- खरगे | Parliament Monsoon Session (9 items), US Army Apache Crash: अमेरिका का AH-64 अपाचे हेलीकॉप्टर क्रैश, 2 की मौत! | Texas |Military Accident (7 items), Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh Arrested Over Alleged ‘Hurried Cremation’ Of RG Kar Case Victim | News18 (5 items)

0 Covered only by alternative

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

Read this as a description of a 26-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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6986 items on this day · 26 outlets · 164 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 26-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.