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Newslaundry

Indian news portal

Newslaundry is an Indian media watchdog[2] that provides media critique, reportage and satirical commentary.[3] It was founded in by Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Prashant Sareen, all of whom earlier worked in print or television journalism.[4] It was India's first subscription-driven website when launched, and since then other platforms have followed a similar model.[5] In contrast to news websites such as The Wire, The Quint, ThePrint or , Newslaundry solely relies on public subscriptions, instead of donations or advertisements, for revenue.[6]

History

Newslaundry does not rely on advertisement for its revenue, and claims to be solely reliant on subscriptions for their income.

The subscriptions allows users access to all stories and podcasts, such as NL Hafta and Let's Talk About, interactions with the Newslaundry team and subscriber only events and discord server.[7][8][9]

In addition to ground reporting and satirical commentary, Newslaundry hosts many podcasts dedicated to politics, culture and entertainment such as the flagship current affairs podcast NL Hafta and Awful and Awesome.[10][11][12]

Newslaundry has developed shows such as Clothesline (hosted by Madhu Trehan, currently on hiatus), Ye Bhi Theek Hai (hosted by Kunal Kamra and Sanjay Rajoura), TV Newsance (hosted by Manisha Pande), Back in Time, and NL Tippani (hosted by Atul Chaurasia) – all of which either probe and critique the Indian media through satire or explore socio-political issues in depth.[13]

Awards

In , executive editor Manisha Pande and Sandeep Pai reported on how politicians misuse the public sector undertakings in India.[14] Their work won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for investigative reporting.[15]

Lawsuits

BCCL defamation lawsuit

On 19 January , the Bennett, Coleman, and Company Limited (BCCL), also commonly known as The Times Group, filed a ₹ crore civil defamation suit against Newslaundry in the Bombay High Court.

The suit alleged that Newslaundry had defamed the director of the BCCL Vineet Jain, as well as Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar, who are the editors of their news channel Times Now. It claimed that an episode of Newslaundry's TV Newsance uploaded on October 10, ,[16] which criticised the news channel for its coverage of the arrest of actress Rhea Chakraborty, was "beyond the realm of satire, parody or spoof" and "false, baseless and highly defamatory".

It further also claimed that the video uploaded on their channel on 27 November titled Explained: How to rig TRP[17] defamed and maligned the images of Shivashankar and Kumar.

Newslaundry responded to this suit by claiming that the legal notices was an attempt to silence criticism[18][19][20] and also said that "no one including media should be above scrutiny".[21]

TV Today Group lawsuit

On 26 October , the India Today Group who run the English channel India Today and Hindi channel Aaj Tak filed a ₹2,00,00, civil defamation suit against Newslaundry in the Delhi High Court.

The group also claimed that Newslaundry was "piggybacking" on the network and violating its and that Newslaundry has harmed the channel's reputation.[22]

The lawsuit sought to remove 34 articles published on the Newslaundry website and 65 videos on the portal's YouTube channel. Furthermore, the suite seeks to remove similar content from Newslaundry's social media on Facebook and Twitter.

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    • The group also struck their YouTube channel was with fifty three strikes which led to five videos being taken down and their channel being frozen for a period of three weeks where Newslaundry was barred from uploading any new videos.[23]

    In response to this, Newslaundry co-founder Abhinandan Sekhri in a statement made to claimed that the case was frivolous.

    He said:

    "It is alarming that these [organisations] are considered the high priests of independent news, free speech and freedom of the press. Now we know why the press and media has come to this stage Because of people like the ones in the management of India Today who think that this is a sensible lawsuit. If I were to review a book and I took a paragraph from it, no one goes around accusing me of infringement of the book, but if someone critiques these news channelsince they are not used to being critiqued, they suddenly say that it is infringement When we are calling something out, we have to show what we are calling out."[23]

    Newslaundry has contested that Section 52 of the Indian Act provides for six exceptions one of which is to criticise or review the original content, and hence claimed that this suit is frivolous as it falls outside the purview of .[23] In another statement made to the Indian Express, Abhinandan Sekhri said:

    "What is alarming to me is that these are the people who are supposed to stand up for a free press and freedom of speech.

    India Today, which prides itself as a self-congratulatory, fantastic news brand, if this is their understanding of free press and freedom of speech, it explains the dismal state of media."[24]

    Sakal Group lawsuit

    On 16 September , the Sakal Media group filed a ₹65 crore defamation notice on Newslaundry for news reports they published and FIR is against the reporter as he used Sakal's trademark logo.

    Newslaundry published news on 11 June about employment terminations of employees in Sakal Times happened in May ,[25] later Sakal Media Group legal department cleared the FIR, filed on 16 September, was only against the reporter for Trademark Infringement in his story and not against Newslaundry. Further investigation is ongoing.[26]

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      Abhinandan Sekhri – Co-founder & CEO of Newslaundry This proves that news is an extremely high-risk venture and they understood that. Abhinandan Sekhri joins Amit Varma in episode of The Seen and the Unseen to speak about the many things he's learned during his rich and unconventional life. Initially, they faced a lot of challenges, as most businesses do, but Newslaundry more than others, as it was a news company. Earlier, they had worked together in television in

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