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What the newsrooms chased on 19 August

Captured for this day: 6096 items from 25 outlets, 252 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 19 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
Hemant SorenRanchi
9 outletsno alternative coverage3.0 items/hr
45 items
02
SamratTejashwi YadavPatnaProtest
8 outletsno alternative coverage1.0 items/hr
17 items
03
Middle EastIranWar
8 outletsno alternative coverage0.7 items/hr
16 items
04
PakistanAsim Munir
7 outletsno alternative coverage1.1 items/hr
24 items
05
HormuzStraitIranTrumpWar
7 outletsno alternative coverage1.3 items/hr
23 items
06
TrumpKim JongNorth Korea
7 outletsno alternative coverage0.6 items/hr
10 items

Breaking News : सोरेन सरकार ने जारी किया नोटिफिकेशन | Ranchi Student Protest | Hemant Soren is the day’s clearest saturation event. 9 outlets, 45 items, 11 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, ABP News, CNN-News18, India TV, NDTV India running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

23h ago 17h 12h 6h now India TV Aaj Tak ABP News News18 India TV9 Bharatvarsh NDTV India CNN-News18 Republic Bharat The Hindu (web) 11 of 45 items land in 2h ←
Each dot is one published item on “Breaking News : सोरेन सरकार ने जारी किया नोटिफिकेशन | Ranchi Student Protest | Hemant Soren”, 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 19 August 2026, 8 of them alternative, 6096 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 Indianetwork18mainstream81713.4%51
NDTV Indiandtvmainstream80913.3%39
Zee Newszee mediamainstream5699.3%35
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream5058.3%34
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4447.3%29
India TVindependent news servicemainstream4136.8%35
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3916.4%54
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream3495.7%38
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2964.9%36
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2864.7%49
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2694.4%45
WIONzee mediamainstream2684.4%49
CNN-News18network18mainstream1782.9%32
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1502.5%40
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream991.6%21
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream831.4%21
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative480.8%5
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream380.6%13
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative270.4%11
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative260.4%5
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative190.3%2
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative70.1%0
Newslaundry (web)newslaundryalternative30.0%0
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative10.0%0
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative10.0%1

Blind spots

Of the 252 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 19 August 2026:

231 Covered only by mainstream

Led by "माल वही है पैकेजिंग नई है" (86 items), Shehzad Poonawalla EXCLUSIVE: शहजाद पूनावाला का खुलासा-पैसों की तंगी से छोड़ी BJP? (50 items), Breaking News : सोरेन सरकार ने जारी किया नोटिफिकेशन | Ranchi Student Protest | Hemant Soren (45 items)

2 Covered only by alternative

Led by 'I am Not Raavan': Chandrashekhar Azad Opens up on Mayawati, Alliance for UP & Gen Z | The Quint (2 items), Twisha Sharma's father terms CBI chargesheet ‘partial’, seeks another opinion on post-mortem (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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6096 items on this day · 25 outlets · 252 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.