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What the newsrooms chased on 14 August

Captured for this day: 5920 items from 25 outlets, 97 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 14 August 2026 reached the crawler 1 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
Independence DayPresident Droupadi Murmu Addresses
5 outlets1.3 items/hr
6 items
02
Nigel FarageClactonCount Binface
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
8 items
03
Gursimran Singh MandAmbala Sikh
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
6 items
04
Har Ghar Tiranga
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
5 items
05
Student Dies After Eating PattyJaipurJaipur Student Dies After Eating Canteen Patty
3 outletsno alternative coverage0.7 items/hr
5 items
06
BhubaneswarIndiGo
3 outletsno alternative coverage0.9 items/hr
4 items

President Droupadi Murmu Addresses Nation On The Eve Of 80th Independence Day is the day’s clearest saturation event. 5 outlets, 6 items, 3 of them inside 2 hours — CNN-News18, India Today, Mojo Story, Republic World, The Hindu (web) running near-continuous coverage of one story. 1 of the covering outlets are alternative.

10h ago 7h 5h 2h now Mojo Story CNN-News18 The Hindu (web) India Today Republic World 3 of 6 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “President Droupadi Murmu Addresses Nation On The Eve Of 80th Independence Day”, 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 14 August 2026, 8 of them alternative, 5920 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 Indiandtvmainstream68311.5%11
News18 Indianetwork18mainstream66911.3%15
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream5889.9%13
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream5339.0%23
Zee Newszee mediamainstream5319.0%14
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4337.3%11
India TVindependent news servicemainstream3926.6%14
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3616.1%19
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2904.9%7
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2814.7%24
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2544.3%7
WIONzee mediamainstream2414.1%13
CNN-News18network18mainstream1632.8%7
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1402.4%9
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream1041.8%5
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream931.6%10
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative571.0%1
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream400.7%3
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative240.4%3
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative140.2%1
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative130.2%0
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative120.2%0
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative20.0%1
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative10.0%0
Newslaundry (web)newslaundryalternative10.0%0

Blind spots

Of the 97 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 14 August 2026:

92 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Viral Video : गोद में बच्चा, हाथ में मोबाइल... बाइक सवार आए और... ! (10 items), UK Elections | Nigel Farage BEATS Count Binface in Boycotted Clacton Parliamentary By-Election (8 items), Ambala Sikh Sangat Protes: गुरसिमरन मंड की गिरफ्तारी को लेकर संग्राम | Gursimran Singh Mand (6 items)

1 Covered only by alternative

Led by 'Please Help Find Our Brothers Missing Since Drone Attack on Ship Off Ukraine' (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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5920 items on this day · 25 outlets · 97 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.