This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by freelance journalist Hridayesh Joshi and The Hindu’s senior assistant editor Kallol Bhattacharjee.

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In this week’s special free episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam, are joined by The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna and University of Michigan associate professor and author Joyojeet Pal.

The conversation begins with discussions on the Tirupati laddu controversy and the Karnataka High Court setback for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the Mysore Urban Development Authority case. Pooja delves into how life has come full circle for Siddaramiah.

Abhinandan underlines the similarities between Indian and US news: “Top headlines on Indian channels is beef in laddus, while top headlines in the US are Donald Trump’s ‘immigrants will eat your dogs’ speech.” Joyojeet explains the nuances of the Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump presidential battle. He says, “Right now it’s a neck and neck fight.”

The panel also discusses PM Modi’s visit to the US. On his address to NRIs in Long Island, Jayashree says, “Modi talked about his biggest achievements, such as new airports and better broadband services – because that’s all that matters to NRIs.”

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Audio Timecodes

00:02:51 - Announcements

00:07:40 - Headlines

00:22:46 - Announcement

00:23:26 - Tirupati laddu

00:32:06 - MUDA case - setback for Siddaramiah?

00:43:48 - Pooja’s recommendation

00:44:45 - Subscriber letters

01:00:44 - US polls & Modi in USA

01:32:53 - Joyojeet’s recommendation

01:38:46 - Subscriber letters

01:55:20 - Recommendations

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Produced and recorded by Priyali Dhingra, edited by Hassan Bilal and Samarendra K Dash.

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This week, we have an in-house panel, with Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan.

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Shardool Katyayan, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by EastMojo executive editor Amit Kumar.

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan discuss the controversy around Netflix’s new show IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming film Emergency, and subscriber letters.

We’re also joined by our subscriber Kanwal Narula, who presents a special gift to the team of Newslaundry.

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and digital creator Akash Banerjee aka TheDeshbhakt.

On sustainable and profitable revenue models for news, Anand says that the subscription model might be prone to the problem of becoming “a groupspeak”, where “financial influences have been insulated, but the editorial leadership has a view” that becomes the identity of the platform. Abhinandan responds to this, saying, “This is not the limitation unique to the subscription model, but a limitation of the human condition.”

Dhanya adds to the subject, saying the paywall adds a lot of pressure on reporters, who judge the value of their work based on whether it goes behind paywall or not.

On the difference between journalists and digital content creators, Akash says creators are appropriating information available through journalistic platforms. Dhanya says that the line between commentators and journalists is already blurring.

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Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:05:50 - Headlines

00:18:41 - Models of news

01:08:15 - Journalists and digital commentators

01:40:09 - Final thoughts and recommendations

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Produced and recorded by Aryan Mahtta, edited by Hassan Bilal and Umrav Singh.

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by journalists Monideepa Banerjie and Nidhi Suresh.

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by award-winning business journalist and author Sucheta Dalal.

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