Media Tracker · Public feed · Sunday 9 August 2026

What the newsrooms chased today

The most recent day in the sample — 1285 items from 22 outlets, 52 of the day’s stories carried by more than one. Below: what got covered, what got ignored, and what a human has actually verified. That last number is currently 0, and it is printed honestly. Earlier days are one click away.

No verified divergence today · the day’s most-covered story

No divergence has been verified, so the lead is a coverage count instead: “Where Is Mojtaba Khamenei? | Pezeshkian: Held Productive Talks With Mojtaba | WION” drew more separate items on this day than any other story in the sample. Two of them are shown. That is what was published, not a claim about why. See the order of publication ↗

Browse by day

14 calendar days, 27 Jul – 09 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 13,554 items across 22 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.

Mon27
Tue28
Wed29
Thu30
Fri311 Sat014
Sun02
Mon035 Tue0425 Wed0532 Thu061843 Fri075774 Sat084571
Sun091285

The taper toward older dates measures the crawler, not the news. Ingestion began on 07 August 2026; every earlier day was reconstructed from what was left in each feed rather than watched. The first item captured from 14 February arrived 4,557.2 days after publication, against 1 minutes on 09 August — that gap, not the news, is what the strip is shaped by. 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 bands above are order-of-magnitude only, and no day’s total should be read as a measurement of that day or compared against another’s.

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
9 outletsno alternative coverage4.4 items/hr
16 items
02
7 outletsno alternative coverage1.9 items/hr
8 items
03
5 outletsno alternative coverage6.1 items/hr
14 items
04
5 outletsno alternative coverage2.3 items/hr
11 items
05
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.6 items/hr
8 items
06
4 outletsno alternative coverage1.4 items/hr
7 items

Where Is Mojtaba Khamenei? | Pezeshkian: Held Productive Talks With Mojtaba | WION is the day’s clearest saturation event. 9 outlets, 16 items, 11 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, CNN-News18, India Today (web), India TV, NDTV (web) running near-continuous coverage of one story. Not one alternative outlet in the sample touched it.

5h ago 4h 2h 1h now News18 India India Today (web) Times of India (web) Aaj Tak CNN-News18 TV9 Bharatvarsh India TV Times Now NDTV (web) 11 of 16 items land in 2h →
Each dot is one published item on “Where Is Mojtaba Khamenei? | Pezeshkian: Held Productive Talks With Mojtaba | WION”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Outlets active

22 outlets published items captured on 09 August 2026, 5 of them alternative. Listed alphabetically, not ranked: an item count is publishing volume, and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached.

Aaj Takmainstream146 items
ABP Newsmainstream115 items
CNN-News18mainstream43 items
India Todaymainstream55 items
India Today (web)mainstream69 items
India TVmainstream128 items
Mojo Storyalternative1 items
NDTV (web)mainstream20 items
NDTV Indiamainstream4 items
News18 Indiamainstream182 items
Republic Bharatmainstream75 items
Republic Worldmainstream15 items
Scroll.in (web)alternative18 items
The Hindu (web)mainstream75 items
ThePrintalternative3 items
The Quint (web)alternative3 items
The Wirealternative1 items
Times Nowmainstream35 items
Times of India (web)mainstream32 items
TV9 Bharatvarshmainstream50 items
WIONmainstream68 items
Zee Newsmainstream147 items

Blind spots

Of the 52 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 09 August 2026:

51 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Where Is Mojtaba Khamenei? | Pezeshkian: Held Productive Talks With Mojtaba | WION (16 items), Women Join Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign | Stitch National Flags Ahead Of Independence Day | Shorts (14 items), Sharad Pawar’s NCP removes all spokespersons (11 items)

0 Covered only by alternative

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

Read this as a description of a 22-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.

Who owns the day

55%
Top three owner groups

India Today Group, Network18, Zee Media — 710 of the 1285 items captured on 09 August 2026, from 15 owner groups in all.

India Today Group 21% · 270 items Network18 18% · 225 items Zee Media 17% · 215 items India Today Group — 270 (21%) Network18 — 225 (18%) Zee Media — 215 (17%) Independent News Service — 128 (10%) ABP Network — 115 (9%) Republic Media Network — 90 (7%) The Hindu Group — 75 (6%) Times Group — 67 (5%) TV9 Network — 50 (4%) NDTV — 24 (2%) Scroll Media — 18 (1%) Printline Media — 3 (0%) Quintillion Media — 3 (0%) Foundation For Independent Journalism — 1 (0%) Mojo Story — 1 (0%)
Share of the 1285 items in this sample on 09 August 2026, by the owner group behind each outlet. This is not market share, not audience share and not revenue: it is how many items a hand-picked registry of 22 outlets put into the crawler on one day, and an owner with more feeds in that registry occupies more of the bar for that reason alone.

Language and reach

Language: Hindi 847, English 438 · Reach: Mainstream 1259, Alternative 26.

Language Hindi 847 (66%) English 438 (34%) Reach Mainstream 1259 (98%)
Items captured on 09 August 2026, split by the outlet’s registered language and by whether it is mainstream or alternative. Language is the outlet’s, not the item’s — per-item detection is unreliable on short headlines. Of the 1285 items, no outlet in the registry is scoped regional yet, so the regional row is absent rather than empty. These are item counts and nothing more: an outlet that posts twelve times an hour fills more of a bar than one that posts twice a day, and neither bar says anything about how many people watched.
← 08 Aug (4571 items)latest dayno later day in the sample

What we can and cannot say about attention

“What captured the nation’s attention” is two different questions, and only one of them is answerable from this data today.

Measurable now Agenda

What newsrooms chose to chase. Coverage counts inside one calendar day are directly comparable across outlets — everything above is built on this.

Not measurable yet Attention

What people actually watched. View counts exist, but cannot yet be compared honestly across outlets. See below.

209h ago 156h 104h 52h now The Quint 21 items over 194.6 hours The Wire 21 items over 71.2 hours
Each of these feeds returned exactly 21 items, so every bar holds the same number of items — but they cover wildly different amounts of time. Adding up views across these bars compares weeks of one channel with hours of another.

Why the view counts are withheld. The feeds return a fixed 21 items per outlet, but outlets publish at wildly different rates — so that window covers 71.2 hours of The Wire and 195 hours of The Quint, a 3× difference. Ranked naively by total views, the slow-posting outlet wins on accumulated time rather than on audience.

Normalising to views-per-hour reverses the ranking, and is also wrong — a three-hour-old video is still climbing while a seven-week-old one has saturated. Both directions are artefacts of posting cadence, so no audience ranking is published here.

The fix is a scheduler, not a scraper: poll repeatedly and measure the change in each video’s view count over time. That yields real velocity curves and needs no paid API. Until it runs, this section stays empty on purpose.

Verified callouts

0 published Nothing has been verified yet.

The pipeline surfaced 585 candidates in this run. A human has confirmed none of them, so this feed is empty — and it stays empty until someone confirms a finding and writes it up in their own words.

An empty feed is the honest state. Filling it with machine output would defeat the point of having it.

Corrections

Errors found in this tracker’s own output are published here permanently, whether or not anything was released publicly.

No corrections logged.

No candidate has been reviewed and rejected with a written reason yet. When one is, it appears here and stays here.

1285 items on this day · 22 outlets · 52 multi-outlet stories · 585 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 13554 items across 22 days, 1093 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 22-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.