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What the newsrooms chased on 15 August

Captured for this day: 5623 items from 25 outlets, 112 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 15 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
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
6 outletsno alternative coverage1.9 items/hr
8 items
02
ModiMahatma GandhiTributeIndependence Day
5 outlets2.4 items/hr
7 items
03
Viksit Bharat
4 outletsno alternative coverage2.5 items/hr
10 items
04
Independence DayModiRed Fort Indian Army
4 outletsno alternative coverage2.1 items/hr
8 items
05
Independence DayModi Hoists National FlagRed Fort
4 outletsno alternative coverage2.8 items/hr
5 items
06
ModiIndependence DayViksitSapta
4 outletsno alternative coverage2.2 items/hr
4 items

Independence Day 2026: केंद्रीय मंत्री Shivraj Singh Chouhan ने अपने आवास पर तिरंगा फहराया | Aaj Tak is the day’s clearest saturation event. 6 outlets, 8 items, 6 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, ABP News, India Today, News18 India, Republic Bharat running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

23h ago 17h 11h 6h now Aaj Tak India Today News18 India Republic Bharat ABP News The Hindu (web) 6 of 8 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “Independence Day 2026: केंद्रीय मंत्री Shivraj Singh Chouhan ने अपने आवास पर तिरंगा फहराया | Aaj Tak”, 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 15 August 2026, 8 of them alternative, 5623 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
News18 Indianetwork18mainstream71612.7%12
NDTV Indiandtvmainstream70112.5%16
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream57810.3%21
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4598.2%14
Zee Newszee mediamainstream4558.1%16
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream4367.8%10
India TVindependent news servicemainstream4097.3%13
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3065.4%10
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2534.5%10
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2414.3%33
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2304.1%4
WIONzee mediamainstream2254.0%22
CNN-News18network18mainstream1492.6%9
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1202.1%17
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream1132.0%13
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream841.5%13
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative410.7%8
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream380.7%3
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative360.6%1
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative90.2%1
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative80.1%1
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative70.1%2
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative50.1%0
Newslaundry (web)newslaundryalternative30.1%0
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative10.0%0

Blind spots

Of the 112 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 15 August 2026:

100 Covered only by mainstream

Led by PM Modi Speech Independence Day 2026 Updates Live : Red Fort मोदी का भाषण | 15 August (11 items), Republic Viksit Bharat 2047 Conclave: Former Advisor Of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (10 items), Independence Day 2026: केंद्रीय मंत्री Shivraj Singh Chouhan ने अपने आवास पर तिरंगा फहराया | Aaj Tak (8 items)

1 Covered only by alternative

Led by Khud-Mukhtaar: What Does It Really Mean to Be Independent? (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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5623 items on this day · 25 outlets · 112 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.