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What the newsrooms chased on 16 August

Captured for this day: 4897 items from 23 outlets, 68 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 16 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
Atal Bihari VajpayeeModiTributePays Tribute
6 outletsno alternative coverage1.0 items/hr
7 items
02
UGC NET
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.9 items/hr
5 items
03
Vande Mataram Row BJYM WorkersProtestSonia Kharge Rahul
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
5 items
04
BJP Files Complaint Against Sonia GandhiVande Mataram RowVikas Puttur Files Complaint Against Sonia Gandhi
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.0 items/hr
4 items
05
Attari Wagah BorderCanine Commandos Showcase
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
4 items
06
Family Couple Makes Public AppearanceAirportKareena Kapoor Saif Ali Khan Spotted
3 outletsno alternative coverage1.1 items/hr
4 items

CM Yogi Adityanath Pays Tribute to Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on His Death Anniversary is the day’s clearest saturation event. 6 outlets, 7 items, 4 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, CNN-News18, India Today, Republic Bharat, Times Now running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

17h ago 13h 9h 4h now Aaj Tak India Today Republic Bharat WION CNN-News18 Times Now 4 of 7 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “CM Yogi Adityanath Pays Tribute to Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on His Death Anniversary”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Source map

23 outlets published items captured on 16 August 2026, 6 of them alternative, 4897 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 Indianetwork18mainstream64413.2%12
NDTV Indiandtvmainstream61912.6%7
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream50410.3%18
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4278.7%9
Zee Newszee mediamainstream4228.6%4
India TVindependent news servicemainstream3787.7%8
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream3457.0%7
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream2996.1%10
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2465.0%13
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2054.2%14
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2034.1%4
WIONzee mediamainstream1603.3%10
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1022.1%9
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream881.8%6
CNN-News18network18mainstream791.6%8
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream711.4%9
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative440.9%1
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream420.9%3
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative120.2%0
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative30.1%0
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative20.0%0
Dhruv Ratheeindependent creatoralternative10.0%0
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative10.0%0

Blind spots

Of the 68 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 16 August 2026:

67 Covered only by mainstream

Led by CM Yogi Adityanath Pays Tribute to Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on His Death Anniversary (7 items), Atal Bihari Vajpayee Death Anniversary: 'सदैव अटल' पहुंचे पूर्व राष्ट्रपति रामनाथ कोविंद... (7 items), UGC-NET Latest News: UGC-NET के तीन विषयों की परीक्षा रद्द, दोबारा होंगे एग्जाम | NTA | Top News (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 23-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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4897 items on this day · 23 outlets · 68 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 23-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.