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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 176: Modi government’s ad spending and newsroom gender gap
Description: This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Ayush Tiwari and Sidharth Singh of Newslaundry.In February 2021, the I&B ministry’s Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity presented, in the parliament, data on the Narendra Modi government’s ad spending. It shows that Republic TV and Times Now, the most watched English news TV channels in the country, got fewer ads than NewsX, India Today, and BTVI. This data doesn’t match the numbers the government had previously released under the Right to Information Act, however, nor with those maintained by the channels themselves. Ayush discus...